Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081269110

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: 13216040

Sub-basin area

775,8km²

Upstream area

775,8km²

Discharge

17,5m³/s

Mean elev.

937m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luquiche265 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Damba
    Uíge · Angola
    676.7 km²
    87.6% of basin
  • Maquela do Zombo
    Uíge · Angola
    95.8 km²
    12.4% of basin

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

Species present

7 distinct species · 8 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

8 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 6
6–5
6–5
1–5
< 1

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°

22,2°C

Annual rain

1 228mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,22

Runoff

674mm/an

PET

1 580mm

AET

1 032mm

Mean slope

3,6°

Water table

296cm

Forest

89%

Crops

6%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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