Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081294420

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 3 administrative regions : Alto Cauale, Calandula, Massango

Pfafstetter: 13224742

Sub-basin area

2 850,6km²

Upstream area

2 850,6km²

Discharge

26,2m³/s

Mean elev.

778m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kugu1577 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Massango
    Malanje · Angola
    2708.1 km²
    95.4% of basin
  • Calandula
    Malanje · Angola
    82.1 km²
    2.9% of basin
  • Alto Cauale
    Uíge · Angola
    48.5 km²
    1.7% of basin

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

Species present

0 distinct species · 0 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

0 obs · 0 cellules

Aucune observation géoréférencée précise (<10 km) dans ce territoire.

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.2° × 0.2° (~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 242mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,31

Runoff

291mm/an

PET

1 806mm

AET

1 051mm

Mean slope

6,1°

Water table

403cm

Forest

97%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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