HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081321940
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
75,3km²
Upstream area
33 028,9km²
Discharge
361,66m³/s
Mean elev.
922m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lulo1066 km²
- Bassin de Kwango272 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cuango41.3 km²55.1% of basin
- 33.7 km²44.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 388mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
305mm/an
PET
1 821mm
AET
1 167mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
186cm
Forest
80%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)