HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081322020
Bassin de Rio Kwanza
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 : Icolo e Bengo, Muxima
Sub-basin area
46,7km²
Upstream area
146 921,8km²
Discharge
1 879,42m³/s
Mean elev.
31m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Kwanza493 km²
- Bassin de Rio Kwanza188 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.4 km²63.2% of basin
- 17.1 km²36.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quiçãma National Park
IUCN IINational Park
27.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
70 distinct species · 129 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 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 Rio Kwanza : 7 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 1 bulle famille, 4 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,1°C
Annual rain
659mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
104mm/an
PET
1 391mm
AET
559mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
202cm
Forest
23%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)