Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081270910

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 4 administrative regions : Buengas, Damba, Maquela do Zombo, Sanza Pombo

Pfafstetter: 13224693

Sub-basin area

3 300,8km²

Upstream area

6 826,1km²

Discharge

80,25m³/s

Mean elev.

892m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kwilu12 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Buengas
    Uíge · Angola
    1494.4 km²
    45.5% of basin
  • Sanza Pombo
    Uíge · Angola
    1193.6 km²
    36.3% of basin
  • Maquela do Zombo
    Uíge · Angola
    590.1 km²
    18.0% of basin
  • Damba
    Uíge · Angola
    8.7 km²
    0.3% of basin

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

Species present

11 distinct species · 12 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

12 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 6
6–5
3–5
3–2
< 3

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°

22,4°C

Annual rain

1 346mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,19

Runoff

413mm/an

PET

1 660mm

AET

1 120mm

Mean slope

5,8°

Water table

355cm

Forest

86%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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