HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081325350
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
535,2km²
Upstream area
20 154,3km²
Discharge
207,51m³/s
Mean elev.
914m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwango846 km²
- Bassin de Kwango730 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 320.1 km²60.1% of basin
- 212.9 km²39.9% 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 350mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
300mm/an
PET
1 814mm
AET
1 140mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
53cm
Forest
89%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)