HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081318610
Bassin de Chiumbe
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
456,9km²
Upstream area
11 733,7km²
Discharge
107,15m³/s
Mean elev.
980m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chiumbe471 km²
- Bassin · #1081321060148 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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 456mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
246mm/an
PET
1 889mm
AET
1 195mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
249cm
Forest
73%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)