HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081342660
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
313,8km²
Upstream area
1 760,4km²
Discharge
16,44m³/s
Mean elev.
1 307m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chikapa999 km²
- Bassin de Chikapa448 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 262.6 km²84.0% of basin
- 50.0 km²16.0% 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 364mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
316mm/an
PET
1 769mm
AET
1 109mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
132cm
Forest
68%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)