HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081300990
Bassin de Lucala
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 4 administrative regions : Alto Cauale, Ambaca, Negage, Puri
Sub-basin area
705,2km²
Upstream area
705,2km²
Discharge
10,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NegageUíge · Angola694.3 km²98.9% of basin
- 3.6 km²0.5% of basin
- Alto CaualeUíge · Angola2.3 km²0.3% of basin
- PuriUíge · Angola2.1 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 30 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 338mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
473mm/an
PET
1 611mm
AET
1 094mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
202cm
Forest
93%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)