HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081448780
Bassin · #1081448780
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 : Mavinga, Rivungo
Sub-basin area
906,1km²
Upstream area
5 631,2km²
Discharge
16,6m³/s
Mean elev.
1 092m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luancundo304 km²
- Bassin · #10814442005 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mavinga511.3 km²56.6% of basin
- Rivungo391.7 km²43.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
903.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
760mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 854mm
AET
641mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
163cm
Forest
10%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)