Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081268940

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: 13224659

Sub-basin area

35,3km²

Upstream area

12 326,2km²

Discharge

143,65m³/s

Mean elev.

614m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kwilu220 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Maquela do Zombo
    Uíge · Angola
    23.8 km²
    67.7% of basin
  • Quimbele
    Uíge · Angola
    11.4 km²
    32.3% 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°

23,7°C

Annual rain

1 399mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,17

Runoff

361mm/an

PET

1 691mm

AET

1 172mm

Mean slope

9,0°

Water table

504cm

Forest

74%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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