HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081324660
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 3 administrative regions : Cambambe, Icolo e Bengo, Muxima
Sub-basin area
1 501,5km²
Upstream area
145 091,4km²
Discharge
1 887,16m³/s
Mean elev.
86m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lucala613 km²
- Bassin de Rio Kwanza588 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1069.3 km²71.5% of basin
- 344.5 km²23.0% of basin
- 81.7 km²5.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quiçãma National Park
IUCN IINational Park
315.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
270 distinct species · 2 440 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 : 13 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 0 bulles famille, 7 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,8°C
Annual rain
734mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
121mm/an
PET
1 449mm
AET
621mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
232cm
Forest
90%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)