Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081370830

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: 13139046

Sub-basin area

482,8km²

Upstream area

482,8km²

Discharge

4,34m³/s

Mean elev.

1 244m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Balombo6 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Bocoio
    Benguela · Angola
    358.4 km²
    74.5% of basin
  • Balombo
    Benguela · Angola
    122.6 km²
    25.5% of basin

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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 187mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,26

Runoff

293mm/an

PET

1 600mm

AET

997mm

Mean slope

3,4°

Water table

357cm

Forest

99%

Crops

3%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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