HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081257810
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 : Kenge, Popokabaka
Sub-basin area
241,6km²
Upstream area
241,6km²
Discharge
3,02m³/s
Mean elev.
712m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 192.1 km²79.9% of basin
- 48.5 km²20.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 22 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 578mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
391mm/an
PET
1 684mm
AET
1 277mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
386cm
Forest
65%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)