HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081324800
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 : Capenda, Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
57km²
Upstream area
20 796,2km²
Discharge
214,4m³/s
Mean elev.
895m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwango585 km²
- Bassin de Kwango535 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 30.3 km²53.4% of basin
- 26.4 km²46.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 360mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
316mm/an
PET
1 822mm
AET
1 149mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
31cm
Forest
82%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)