HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081297660
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
654,9km²
Upstream area
655,1km²
Discharge
5,51m³/s
Mean elev.
729m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 652.1 km²100.0% of basin
- MarimbaMalanje · Angola0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Swa-Kibula
IUCN VIHunting Area
216.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
28 distinct species · 34 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 389mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
266mm/an
PET
1 833mm
AET
1 173mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
349cm
Forest
96%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
33%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)