HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081312650
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 : Cuango, Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
985,4km²
Upstream area
36 649km²
Discharge
391,35m³/s
Mean elev.
862m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwango433 km²
- Bassin · #1081316620385 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cuango500.9 km²51.0% of basin
- 480.5 km²49.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
59 distinct species · 269 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 4 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kwango : 3 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 2 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 33.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 402mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
256mm/an
PET
1 845mm
AET
1 178mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
249cm
Forest
98%
Crops
2%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)