HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081472820
Bassin de Kwando
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Dirico, Kongola, Rivungo
Sub-basin area
2 342,2km²
Upstream area
2 342,6km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
1 014m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Rivungo2250.8 km²96.4% of basin
- 82.0 km²3.5% of basin
- Dirico1.8 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Luengue-Luiana National Park
IUCN IINational Park
1890.13 km² overlap
Bwabwata
IUCN VINational Park
84.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
148 distinct species · 263 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kwando : 24 espèces dont 5 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,9°C
Annual rain
616mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 850mm
AET
519mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
15cm
Forest
14%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
77%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)