HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081394490
Bassin de Impulo
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 : Chongoroi, Quilengues
Sub-basin area
683,3km²
Upstream area
2 927,4km²
Discharge
19,34m³/s
Mean elev.
727m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chitaque387 km²
- Bassin de Impulo80 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ChongoroiBenguela · Angola678.2 km²99.6% of basin
- 2.6 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
856mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
208mm/an
PET
1 603mm
AET
724mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
405cm
Forest
34%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)