Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081288210

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 : Bungo, Puri, Sanza Pombo

Pfafstetter: 13224695

Sub-basin area

379,1km²

Upstream area

2 834,4km²

Discharge

34m³/s

Mean elev.

1 023m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kwilu3301 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Bungo
    Uíge · Angola
    255.6 km²
    67.7% of basin
  • Sanza Pombo
    Uíge · Angola
    118.8 km²
    31.5% of basin
  • Puri
    Uíge · Angola
    3.0 km²
    0.8% of basin

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 3 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 2 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°

21,7°C

Annual rain

1 367mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,17

Runoff

426mm/an

PET

1 657mm

AET

1 123mm

Mean slope

3,7°

Water table

278cm

Forest

99%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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