HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081344800
Bassin de Mukuswege
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
935,2km²
Upstream area
935,2km²
Discharge
8,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 090m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuauMoxico · Angola928.5 km²99.7% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
44 distinct species · 65 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 348mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
273mm/an
PET
1 943mm
AET
1 105mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
205cm
Forest
90%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)