HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081338890
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 4 administrative regions : Cacolo, Capenda, Quirima, Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
1 020,5km²
Upstream area
8 261km²
Discharge
94,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 150m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kwango744 km²
- Bassin de Kwango452 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 638.9 km²62.9% of basin
- 132.4 km²13.0% of basin
- 124.8 km²12.3% of basin
- QuirimaMalanje · Angola120.4 km²11.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
1 392mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
394mm/an
PET
1 749mm
AET
1 126mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
278cm
Forest
94%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)