HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081356750
Bassin de Cuchem
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 : Cassongue, Seles, Waku Kungo
Sub-basin area
658,8km²
Upstream area
658,8km²
Discharge
9,63m³/s
Mean elev.
1 484m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 502.8 km²76.6% of basin
- 153.4 km²23.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
143 distinct species · 581 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,0°C
Annual rain
963mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
460mm/an
PET
1 642mm
AET
813mm
Mean slope
6,3°
Water table
412cm
Forest
100%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)