HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081302520
Bassin de Utunguila
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Caungula, Cuango, Kahemba, Kasongo-Lunda, Marimba
Sub-basin area
2 576,5km²
Upstream area
2 576,5km²
Discharge
21,16m³/s
Mean elev.
753m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cuango1651.4 km²64.4% of basin
- 657.8 km²25.6% of basin
- 254.0 km²9.9% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.1% of basin
- MarimbaMalanje · Angola0.6 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 15 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 394mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
265mm/an
PET
1 859mm
AET
1 176mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
379cm
Forest
86%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)