HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081344080
Bassin de Cassai
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 : Luau, Muconda
Sub-basin area
802,9km²
Upstream area
16 325,6km²
Discharge
117,02m³/s
Mean elev.
1 081m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cassai1267 km²
- Bassin de Mukuswege935 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuauMoxico · Angola660.0 km²82.5% of basin
- 139.7 km²17.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
49 distinct species · 60 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 347mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
246mm/an
PET
1 960mm
AET
1 111mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
266cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)