Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081346060

Bassin de Rio Kwanza

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 : Andulo, Luquembo

Pfafstetter: 13187030

Sub-basin area

81,8km²

Upstream area

41 667,6km²

Discharge

612,55m³/s

Mean elev.

1 076m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rio Kwanza375 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Luquembo
    Malanje · Angola
    64.3 km²
    78.9% of basin
  • Andulo
    Bié · Angola
    17.2 km²
    21.1% of basin

1 intersecting protected areas

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.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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 201mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,29

Runoff

480mm/an

PET

1 699mm

AET

1 016mm

Mean slope

0,3°

Water table

65cm

Forest

55%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

66%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)