HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081344650
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 3 administrative regions : Luau, Lucano, Muconda
Sub-basin area
1 266,8km²
Upstream area
14 587,9km²
Discharge
103,06m³/s
Mean elev.
1 089m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cassai3979 km²
- Bassin de Lucuano626 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuauMoxico · Angola681.1 km²54.0% of basin
- 451.1 km²35.8% of basin
- 129.5 km²10.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 8 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 354mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
279mm/an
PET
1 931mm
AET
1 106mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
200cm
Forest
86%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)