Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081370760

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 2 administrative regions : Balombo, Bocoio

Pfafstetter: 13139047

Sub-basin area

569,2km²

Upstream area

2 153,6km²

Discharge

21,71m³/s

Mean elev.

1 250m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Balombo6 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Balombo
    Benguela · Angola
    415.0 km²
    73.2% of basin
  • Bocoio
    Benguela · Angola
    151.9 km²
    26.8% of basin

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

Species present

31 distinct species · 56 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

56 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 55
55–54
55–54
55–54
< 55

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°

21,9°C

Annual rain

1 179mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,27

Runoff

332mm/an

PET

1 614mm

AET

994mm

Mean slope

5,9°

Water table

428cm

Forest

100%

Crops

3%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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