HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081321140
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 1 administrative regions : Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
648,4km²
Upstream area
648,4km²
Discharge
5,24m³/s
Mean elev.
895m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 645.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 345mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
256mm/an
PET
1 817mm
AET
1 137mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
89cm
Forest
73%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)