HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081327720
Bassin de Lwi
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 : Quela, Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
143,8km²
Upstream area
4 489,2km²
Discharge
37,18m³/s
Mean elev.
751m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lware1327 km²
- Bassin de Lware353 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 87.2 km²60.9% of basin
- QuelaMalanje · Angola56.0 km²39.1% 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 233mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
223mm/an
PET
1 837mm
AET
1 042mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
87cm
Forest
10%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)