HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081339760
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 2 administrative regions : Dala, Saurimo
Sub-basin area
174,2km²
Upstream area
2 731,7km²
Discharge
26,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 241m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chikapa256 km²
- Bassin de Chikapa218 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 158.7 km²91.4% of basin
- 14.9 km²8.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 355mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
318mm/an
PET
1 802mm
AET
1 114mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
195cm
Forest
69%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)