HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343380
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 2 administrative regions : Quirima, Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
743,5km²
Upstream area
743,5km²
Discharge
10,63m³/s
Mean elev.
1 233m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- QuirimaMalanje · Angola729.8 km²98.6% of basin
- 10.7 km²1.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 395mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
447mm/an
PET
1 736mm
AET
1 113mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
393cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)