HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080019420
Bassin de Rio Cuanza
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 : Muxima, Viana
Sub-basin area
220,4km²
Upstream area
150 086,5km²
Discharge
1 868,72m³/s
Mean elev.
58m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cuanza1909 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cuanza475 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 217.5 km²99.1% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quiçãma National Park
IUCN IINational Park
2.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
218 distinct species · 958 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio Cuanza : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 1 bulle famille, 11 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,4°C
Annual rain
513mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
122mm/an
PET
1 258mm
AET
438mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
344cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)