HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081302510
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Cuango, Cunda-dia-Baza, Kasongo-Lunda, Marimba
Sub-basin area
747,2km²
Upstream area
56 242,8km²
Discharge
507,91m³/s
Mean elev.
699m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwango1963 km²
- Bassin de Lwi138 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MarimbaMalanje · Angola340.0 km²45.7% of basin
- Cunda-dia-BazaMalanje · Angola256.0 km²34.4% of basin
- Cuango148.0 km²19.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 303mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
199mm/an
PET
1 888mm
AET
1 102mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
313cm
Forest
90%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)