HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081331590
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 1 administrative regions : Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
6,9km²
Upstream area
12 804,5km²
Discharge
138,18m³/s
Mean elev.
910m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwale2386 km²
- Bassin de Kwango1431 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 6.9 km²100.0% 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 335mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
319mm/an
PET
1 820mm
AET
1 127mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
26cm
Forest
100%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)