HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081295500
Bassin de Kwango
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 across 2 countries : Kasongo-Lunda, Marimba
Sub-basin area
346,4km²
Upstream area
62 478,5km²
Discharge
543,08m³/s
Mean elev.
680m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwango655 km²
- Bassin de Kwango168 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MarimbaMalanje · Angola223.1 km²64.7% of basin
- 121.9 km²35.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Swa-Kibula
IUCN VIHunting Area
120.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 41 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,5°C
Annual rain
1 319mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
227mm/an
PET
1 858mm
AET
1 116mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
473cm
Forest
94%
Crops
6%
Urban
1%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)