Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081266960

Bassin de Luquiche

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 : Damba, Maquela do Zombo

Pfafstetter: 13216039

Sub-basin area

265,3km²

Upstream area

6 586,3km²

Discharge

136,59m³/s

Mean elev.

822m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luquiche28 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Maquela do Zombo
    Uíge · Angola
    262.8 km²
    99.5% of basin
  • Damba
    Uíge · Angola
    1.4 km²
    0.5% of basin

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

Species present

36 distinct species · 49 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

49 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 25
25–24
20–24
2–19
< 2

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°

22,6°C

Annual rain

1 285mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,19

Runoff

599mm/an

PET

1 593mm

AET

1 077mm

Mean slope

4,0°

Water table

325cm

Forest

77%

Crops

6%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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