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
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°
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)