HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081279080
Bassin de Kwilu
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 : Kahemba
Sub-basin area
643,1km²
Upstream area
18 810,4km²
Discharge
255,92m³/s
Mean elev.
926m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Manzala2777 km²
- Bassin de Kwilu739 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 640.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 641mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
462mm/an
PET
1 723mm
AET
1 300mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
286cm
Forest
66%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)