HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081360580
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 4 administrative regions : Camacupa, Catabola, Luquembo, Nharea
Sub-basin area
500,9km²
Upstream area
32 735,4km²
Discharge
442,42m³/s
Mean elev.
1 329m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luhasso1197 km²
- Bassin de Rio Kwanza82 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 240.0 km²48.1% of basin
- 120.7 km²24.2% of basin
- LuquemboMalanje · Angola115.7 km²23.2% of basin
- 22.4 km²4.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Integral Nature Reserve
102.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 12 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
1 272mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
536mm/an
PET
1 715mm
AET
1 020mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
194cm
Forest
98%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)