Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081368630

Bassin de Balombo

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 : Bocoio, Lobito, Sumbe

Pfafstetter: 13139043

Sub-basin area

823,2km²

Upstream area

3 786,1km²

Discharge

33,23m³/s

Mean elev.

1 064m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cuombo509 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Bocoio
    Benguela · Angola
    520.2 km²
    63.4% of basin
  • Lobito
    Benguela · Angola
    217.5 km²
    26.5% of basin
  • Sumbe
    Cuanza Sul · Angola
    82.3 km²
    10.0% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

9 distinct species · 14 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

14 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 7
7–6
7–6
6–6
< 6

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°

22,8°C

Annual rain

1 030mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,34

Runoff

216mm/an

PET

1 568mm

AET

871mm

Mean slope

7,4°

Water table

588cm

Forest

50%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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