Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081265440

Bassin de Kwilu

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 : Maquela do Zombo, Quimbele

Pfafstetter: 13224653

Sub-basin area

199,3km²

Upstream area

14 978,3km²

Discharge

169,87m³/s

Mean elev.

595m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kwilu128 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Quimbele
    Uíge · Angola
    112.1 km²
    56.5% of basin
  • Maquela do Zombo
    Uíge · Angola
    86.3 km²
    43.5% of basin

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

Species present

0 distinct species · 0 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

0 obs · 0 cellules

Aucune observation géoréférencée précise (<10 km) dans ce territoire.

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.2° × 0.2° (~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°

23,8°C

Annual rain

1 454mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,14

Runoff

373mm/an

PET

1 694mm

AET

1 210mm

Mean slope

8,3°

Water table

447cm

Forest

81%

Crops

8%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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