HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081360470
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 3 administrative regions : Catabola, Cunhinga, Nharea
Sub-basin area
764,4km²
Upstream area
764,5km²
Discharge
14,26m³/s
Mean elev.
1 486m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 748.0 km²98.2% of basin
- 7.9 km²1.0% of basin
- 5.5 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Integral Nature Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
1 309mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
588mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
1 026mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
287cm
Forest
100%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)