HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081360780
Bassin de Lwando
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 : Cuemba, Quirima
Sub-basin area
377,6km²
Upstream area
4 158,3km²
Discharge
62,24m³/s
Mean elev.
1 311m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwando674 km²
- Bassin de Lwando15 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 373.9 km²99.4% of basin
- QuirimaMalanje · Angola2.2 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
1 348mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
506mm/an
PET
1 741mm
AET
1 060mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
364cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)