Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081273040

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 5 administrative regions : Bungo, Damba, Mucaba, Negage, Uíge

Pfafstetter: 13216060

Sub-basin area

2 175,7km²

Upstream area

2 175,8km²

Discharge

45,71m³/s

Mean elev.

1 091m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luquiche350 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Damba
    Uíge · Angola
    1041.5 km²
    48.1% of basin
  • Bungo
    Uíge · Angola
    706.0 km²
    32.6% of basin
  • Mucaba
    Uíge · Angola
    356.7 km²
    16.5% of basin
  • Uíge
    Uíge · Angola
    59.9 km²
    2.8% of basin
  • Negage
    Uíge · Angola
    2.3 km²
    0.1% of basin

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

Species present

83 distinct species · 125 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

125 obs · 6 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 90
90–89
30–89
2–29
< 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°

21,4°C

Annual rain

1 328mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,16

Runoff

605mm/an

PET

1 587mm

AET

1 083mm

Mean slope

3,5°

Water table

240cm

Forest

80%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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