HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081323010
Bassin de Rio Cuanza
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 3 administrative regions : Icolo e Bengo, Muxima, Viana
Sub-basin area
1 909,1km²
Upstream area
149 391,5km²
Discharge
1 865,98m³/s
Mean elev.
71m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Kwanza559 km²
- Bassin de Rio Kwanza47 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 931.3 km²49.0% of basin
- 536.1 km²28.2% of basin
- 433.8 km²22.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quiçãma National Park
IUCN IINational Park
933.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
746 distinct species · 11 066 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
581mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
111mm/an
PET
1 320mm
AET
494mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
257cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)