HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081288720
Bassin · #1081288720
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 : Songo, Uíge
Sub-basin area
331,6km²
Upstream area
616,9km²
Discharge
11,5m³/s
Mean elev.
871m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081293610175 km²
- Bassin · #1081293750111 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 191.9 km²58.1% of basin
- SongoUíge · Angola138.2 km²41.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
121 distinct species · 214 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 306mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
594mm/an
PET
1 614mm
AET
1 065mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
320cm
Forest
77%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)