HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081308220
Bassin de Luembe
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 3 administrative regions : Cambulo, Muconda, Saurimo
Sub-basin area
4 376,9km²
Upstream area
12 281,9km²
Discharge
108,05m³/s
Mean elev.
1 032m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luembe3357 km²
- Bassin de Lufige2672 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3423.6 km²78.5% of basin
- 808.2 km²18.5% of basin
- 127.2 km²2.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 11 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
1 434mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
242mm/an
PET
1 893mm
AET
1 172mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
237cm
Forest
88%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)