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HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081327280

Bassin · #1081327280

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 3 administrative regions : Cangandala, Malanje, Mucari

Pfafstetter: 13183605

Sub-basin area

1 231,5km²

Upstream area

2 422,8km²

Discharge

16,83m³/s

Mean elev.

1 138m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin · #1081329420949 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Cangandala
    Malanje · Angola
    692.1 km²
    56.4% of basin
  • Mucari
    Malanje · Angola
    532.9 km²
    43.5% of basin
  • Malanje
    Malanje · Angola
    1.4 km²
    0.1% of basin

1 intersecting protected areas

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

Species present

22 distinct species · 48 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

48 obs · 8 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 21
21–20
4–20
4–3
< 4

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°

21,0°C

Annual rain

1 253mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,29

Runoff

227mm/an

PET

1 763mm

AET

1 058mm

Mean slope

1,1°

Water table

123cm

Forest

99%

Crops

7%

Urban

0%

Protected

10%

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