HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081333920
Bassin · #1081333920
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 : Cangandala
Sub-basin area
362,4km²
Upstream area
362,5km²
Discharge
3,11m³/s
Mean elev.
1 110m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CangandalaMalanje · Angola360.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cangandala National Park
IUCN IINational Park
177.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 40 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 183mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
270mm/an
PET
1 751mm
AET
1 000mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
92cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
33%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)