HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081334300
Bassin · #1081334300
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
190,9km²
Upstream area
1 711,3km²
Discharge
14,8m³/s
Mean elev.
1 075m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081335010319 km²
- Bassin · #10813348201 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CangandalaMalanje · Angola190.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cangandala National Park
IUCN IINational Park
28.95 km² overlap
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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
1 165mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
304mm/an
PET
1 732mm
AET
985mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
49cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)