HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081216790
Bassin de Kwango
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 : Bagata, Kwamouth
Sub-basin area
454,9km²
Upstream area
175 967,4km²
Discharge
1 700,48m³/s
Mean elev.
313m
Administrative coverage
Species present
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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 606mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
302mm/an
PET
1 702mm
AET
1 353mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
35cm
Forest
87%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)