HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081322670
Bassin de Chikapa
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
319,7km²
Upstream area
320km²
Discharge
2,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 035m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 6 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 355mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
247mm/an
PET
1 876mm
AET
1 143mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
289cm
Forest
82%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)