HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081334150
Bassin · #1081334150
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
224,4km²
Upstream area
224,4km²
Discharge
1,91m³/s
Mean elev.
1 096m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CangandalaMalanje · Angola223.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cangandala National Park
IUCN IINational Park
219.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 10 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 190mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
269mm/an
PET
1 747mm
AET
1 006mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
56cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)