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