HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081330230
Bassin de Rio Kwanza
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 : Malanje, Mussende
Sub-basin area
63,6km²
Upstream area
4 417,9km²
Discharge
32,8m³/s
Mean elev.
1 047m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081329420949 km²
- Bassin · #1081329520252 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MalanjeMalanje · Angola62.8 km²99.1% of basin
- Mussende0.5 km²0.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
1 107mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
316mm/an
PET
1 755mm
AET
935mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
115cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)