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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081222970138 km²
- Bassin de Kwango80 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 243.4 km²53.7% of basin
- 209.5 km²46.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 60 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°
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)