HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081316060
Bassin de Bengo
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 6 administrative regions : Banga, Cazengo, Golungo Alto, Lucala, Ngonguembo +1
Sub-basin area
2 055,3km²
Upstream area
2 991,2km²
Discharge
24,04m³/s
Mean elev.
771m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bengo472 km²
- Bassin de Bengo464 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Golungo Alto638.5 km²31.2% of basin
- 498.3 km²24.3% of basin
- 431.4 km²21.1% of basin
- Banga383.0 km²18.7% of basin
- 66.1 km²3.2% of basin
- 29.4 km²1.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
56 distinct species · 80 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
261mm/an
PET
1 592mm
AET
892mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
419cm
Forest
96%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)