Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081277120

Bassin de Lueca

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 : Bembe, Damba

Pfafstetter: 13190862

Sub-basin area

862,4km²

Upstream area

862,5km²

Discharge

18,51m³/s

Mean elev.

785m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Mbridge252 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Damba
    Uíge · Angola
    658.5 km²
    76.7% of basin
  • Bembe
    Uíge · Angola
    200.3 km²
    23.3% of basin

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 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°

22,9°C

Annual rain

1 153mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,26

Runoff

672mm/an

PET

1 569mm

AET

970mm

Mean slope

3,7°

Water table

166cm

Forest

86%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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