HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081303620
Bassin de Kafinga
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 : Malemba-Nkulu, Mitwaba
Sub-basin area
658,3km²
Upstream area
658,3km²
Discharge
4,25m³/s
Mean elev.
920m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 526.2 km²80.3% of basin
- 129.3 km²19.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 049mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
175mm/an
PET
1 739mm
AET
887mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
531cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)