Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081269770

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 3 administrative regions : Buengas, Maquela do Zombo, Quimbele

Pfafstetter: 13224670

Sub-basin area

413,4km²

Upstream area

9 803,3km²

Discharge

115,52m³/s

Mean elev.

707m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kwilu35 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Buengas
    Uíge · Angola
    238.6 km²
    58.0% of basin
  • Maquela do Zombo
    Uíge · Angola
    172.0 km²
    41.8% of basin
  • Quimbele
    Uíge · Angola
    1.1 km²
    0.3% of basin

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~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°

23,2°C

Annual rain

1 376mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,18

Runoff

367mm/an

PET

1 668mm

AET

1 150mm

Mean slope

7,9°

Water table

372cm

Forest

87%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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