HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081306840
Bassin de Lwi
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 : Cunda-dia-Baza, Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
138,2km²
Upstream area
14 750km²
Discharge
94,43m³/s
Mean elev.
674m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwi2048 km²
- Bassin de Lwi99 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cunda-dia-BazaMalanje · Angola87.4 km²63.5% of basin
- 50.2 km²36.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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 299mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
187mm/an
PET
1 900mm
AET
1 098mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
251cm
Forest
100%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)