Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081327200

Bassin · #1081327200

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 4 administrative regions : Cangandala, Cuaba Nzogo, Malanje, Mucari

Pfafstetter: 13183604

Sub-basin area

731km²

Upstream area

731km²

Discharge

4,57m³/s

Mean elev.

1 182m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Mucari
    Malanje · Angola
    455.2 km²
    62.5% of basin
  • Malanje
    Malanje · Angola
    242.0 km²
    33.2% of basin
  • 30.5 km²
    4.2% of basin
  • Cangandala
    Malanje · Angola
    0.2 km²
    0.0% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

15 distinct species · 18 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

18 obs · 6 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 9
9–8
3–8
2–2
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

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

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,1°C

Annual rain

1 227mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,31

Runoff

217mm/an

PET

1 775mm

AET

1 037mm

Mean slope

1,8°

Water table

196cm

Forest

85%

Crops

7%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)