HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081279160
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 2 administrative regions : Kamonia, Kazumba
Sub-basin area
776,5km²
Upstream area
56 246,1km²
Discharge
385,43m³/s
Mean elev.
673m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kasaï324 km²
- Bassin de Kasaï220 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 620.0 km²80.2% of basin
- 153.2 km²19.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 548mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
205mm/an
PET
1 788mm
AET
1 291mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
215cm
Forest
84%
Crops
2%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)