HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081427120
Bassin de Calonga
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 : Cuvelai, Jamba
Sub-basin area
634,9km²
Upstream area
4 905,1km²
Discharge
15,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 264m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Colui1189 km²
- Bassin de Calonga845 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 437.2 km²69.1% of basin
- 195.5 km²30.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mupa National Park
IUCN IINational Park
278.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
47 distinct species · 49 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
762mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 914mm
AET
643mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
242cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)