Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081291960

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 3 administrative regions : Alto Cauale, Massango, Sanza Pombo

Pfafstetter: 13224748

Sub-basin area

615,4km²

Upstream area

615,5km²

Discharge

6,95m³/s

Mean elev.

878m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kwale41 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Alto Cauale
    Uíge · Angola
    386.7 km²
    63.1% of basin
  • Sanza Pombo
    Uíge · Angola
    208.3 km²
    34.0% of basin
  • Massango
    Malanje · Angola
    17.7 km²
    2.9% of basin

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

Species present

20 distinct species · 27 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

27 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 27
27–26
27–26
27–26
< 27

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°

22,5°C

Annual rain

1 306mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,24

Runoff

359mm/an

PET

1 731mm

AET

1 097mm

Mean slope

4,3°

Water table

239cm

Forest

98%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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