HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081294270
Bassin de Vamba
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 : Ambuila, Nambuangongo, Quitexe
Sub-basin area
979,5km²
Upstream area
979,5km²
Discharge
12,94m³/s
Mean elev.
684m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 624.4 km²64.0% of basin
- QuitexeUíge · Angola333.4 km²34.2% of basin
- 17.5 km²1.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
84 distinct species · 147 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
664mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
404mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
561mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
372cm
Forest
97%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)