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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)