HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081344220
Bassin de Cassai
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 across 2 countries : Dilolo, Luau, Muconda
Sub-basin area
9,9km²
Upstream area
4 294,4km²
Discharge
34,1m³/s
Mean elev.
998m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081344870259 km²
- Bassin de Lwawu142 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuauMoxico · Angola4.7 km²48.1% of basin
- 3.8 km²39.0% of basin
- 1.3 km²12.9% 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 320mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
215mm/an
PET
1 968mm
AET
1 101mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
128cm
Forest
57%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)