HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081334670
Bassin · #1081334670
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 : Cambundi-Catembo, Cangandala
Sub-basin area
628,2km²
Upstream area
628,2km²
Discharge
5,07m³/s
Mean elev.
1 118m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CangandalaMalanje · Angola526.3 km²84.1% of basin
- Cambundi-CatemboMalanje · Angola99.4 km²15.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cangandala National Park
IUCN IINational Park
44.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 28 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 227mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
255mm/an
PET
1 742mm
AET
1 037mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
83cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)