Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081289900

Bassin de Kwale

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 : Massango, Sanza Pombo

Pfafstetter: 13224745

Sub-basin area

574,9km²

Upstream area

5 570,8km²

Discharge

62,34m³/s

Mean elev.

622m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kugu867 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Massango
    Malanje · Angola
    408.7 km²
    71.4% of basin
  • Sanza Pombo
    Uíge · Angola
    163.8 km²
    28.6% of basin

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 1 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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°

23,7°C

Annual rain

1 263mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,30

Runoff

316mm/an

PET

1 808mm

AET

1 068mm

Mean slope

6,6°

Water table

543cm

Forest

88%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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