HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081297710
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
167,5km²
Upstream area
61 477,3km²
Discharge
539,66m³/s
Mean elev.
678m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwango978 km²
- Bassin de Kwango21 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.1 km²57.0% of basin
- MarimbaMalanje · Angola71.7 km²43.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Swa-Kibula
IUCN VIHunting Area
9.94 km² overlap
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.
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 326mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
231mm/an
PET
1 864mm
AET
1 122mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
482cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)