Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081289800

Bassin de Kugu

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 : Massango, Milunga, Quimbele, Sanza Pombo

Pfafstetter: 13224744

Sub-basin area

3 550,1km²

Upstream area

3 550,1km²

Discharge

40,37m³/s

Mean elev.

748m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kugu867 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Milunga
    Uíge · Angola
    2131.5 km²
    60.3% of basin
  • Sanza Pombo
    Uíge · Angola
    1145.9 km²
    32.4% of basin
  • Quimbele
    Uíge · Angola
    246.3 km²
    7.0% of basin
  • Massango
    Malanje · Angola
    11.1 km²
    0.3% of basin

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

Species present

57 distinct species · 73 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

73 obs · 12 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 14
13–13
8–12
7–7
< 7

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°

23,1°C

Annual rain

1 359mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,22

Runoff

355mm/an

PET

1 743mm

AET

1 140mm

Mean slope

6,4°

Water table

420cm

Forest

95%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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