HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081321120
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 2 administrative regions : Muconda, Saurimo
Sub-basin area
470,6km²
Upstream area
11 128,3km²
Discharge
102,54m³/s
Mean elev.
994m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chiumbe145 km²
- Bassin de Chiumbe3 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 431.7 km²92.1% of basin
- 37.0 km²7.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
35 distinct species · 63 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 466mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
253mm/an
PET
1 895mm
AET
1 193mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
255cm
Forest
91%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)