HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081320260
Bassin de Luege
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 : Calandula, Samba Cajú
Sub-basin area
455,3km²
Upstream area
455,5km²
Discharge
4,88m³/s
Mean elev.
1 156m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CalandulaMalanje · Angola262.0 km²57.8% of basin
- 191.4 km²42.2% 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
1 103mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
334mm/an
PET
1 679mm
AET
932mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
244cm
Forest
95%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)