HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081314220
Bassin de Rio Luana
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 : Saurimo
Sub-basin area
341,8km²
Upstream area
1 999,4km²
Discharge
15m³/s
Mean elev.
996m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Luana988 km²
- Bassin de Rio Luife670 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 463mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
222mm/an
PET
1 871mm
AET
1 202mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
272cm
Forest
89%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)