HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081323070
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 1 administrative regions : Muxima
Sub-basin area
474,7km²
Upstream area
474,7km²
Discharge
2,23m³/s
Mean elev.
155m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Quiçãma National Park
IUCN IINational Park
472.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
421 distinct species · 7 097 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
644mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
1 305mm
AET
546mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
348cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)