HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081284190
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 3 administrative regions : Kamonia, Kazumba, Luiza
Sub-basin area
262,1km²
Upstream area
53 918,1km²
Discharge
363,67m³/s
Mean elev.
786m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kasaï1795 km²
- Bassin de Kasaï55 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 226.4 km²86.7% of basin
- 34.4 km²13.2% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 572mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
228mm/an
PET
1 763mm
AET
1 295mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
210cm
Forest
75%
Crops
5%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)