HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081294130
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 : Alto Cauale, Ambaca, Negage
Sub-basin area
559,7km²
Upstream area
559,7km²
Discharge
6,39m³/s
Mean elev.
1 133m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Alto CaualeUíge · Angola546.5 km²98.0% of basin
- 7.7 km²1.4% of basin
- NegageUíge · Angola3.2 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
64 distinct species · 82 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,3°C
Annual rain
1 293mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
406mm/an
PET
1 679mm
AET
1 089mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
240cm
Forest
85%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)