Ontologia

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

Pfafstetter: 13229275

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

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

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.

Densité d'observations

17 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 12
12–11
12–11
3–11
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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)