HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081328520
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
611,5km²
Upstream area
5 749,6km²
Discharge
53,27m³/s
Mean elev.
1 071m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081334470591 km²
- Bassin de Chikapa474 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 17 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
1 321mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
252mm/an
PET
1 875mm
AET
1 114mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
298cm
Forest
68%
Crops
5%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)