HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081276810
Bassin de Kasaï
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 1 administrative regions : Kamonia
Sub-basin area
95,4km²
Upstream area
58 197,1km²
Discharge
402,95m³/s
Mean elev.
578m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Lunyeka776 km²
- Bassin de Kasaï246 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 532mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
170mm/an
PET
1 793mm
AET
1 288mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
281cm
Forest
88%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)