HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081307570
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 2 administrative regions : Ambaca, Calandula
Sub-basin area
240,2km²
Upstream area
3 875,5km²
Discharge
63,01m³/s
Mean elev.
1 210m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lucala956 km²
- Bassin de Lucala857 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 144.5 km²60.4% of basin
- CalandulaMalanje · Angola94.7 km²39.6% 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
1 194mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
458mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
1 010mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
277cm
Forest
91%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)