Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081449050

Bassin de Kakenge

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 : Senanga, Sioma

Pfafstetter: 12291560

Sub-basin area

1 764,5km²

Upstream area

1 764,5km²

Discharge

2,68m³/s

Mean elev.

1 052m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Zambezi362 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Naluywa

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    189.30 km² overlap

  • Luanga Namakusi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    25.77 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

37 distinct species · 41 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

41 obs · 9 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 12
12–11
6–11
2–5
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,2°C

Annual rain

787mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,57

Runoff

49mm/an

PET

1 847mm

AET

664mm

Mean slope

0,3°

Water table

133cm

Forest

19%

Crops

3%

Urban

0%

Protected

12%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)