HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081321260
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 : Quela, Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
623,3km²
Upstream area
6 622,1km²
Discharge
49,26m³/s
Mean elev.
720m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bale414 km²
- Bassin de Lwi186 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- QuelaMalanje · Angola313.0 km²50.4% of basin
- 307.8 km²49.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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 271mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
198mm/an
PET
1 875mm
AET
1 075mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
106cm
Forest
6%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)