HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081289540
Bassin de Chikapa
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 1 administrative regions : Chitato
Sub-basin area
114,9km²
Upstream area
16 074,9km²
Discharge
134,88m³/s
Mean elev.
739m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chikapa713 km²
- Bassin de Chikapa197 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Chitato114.5 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 588mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
255mm/an
PET
1 820mm
AET
1 298mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
326cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)