HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081355530
Bassin de Luxia
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 : Camanongue, Dala, Moxico
Sub-basin area
1 616,9km²
Upstream area
1 616,9km²
Discharge
10,21m³/s
Mean elev.
1 308m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 850.3 km²52.8% of basin
- CamanongueMoxico · Angola758.8 km²47.1% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
1 289mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
1 746mm
AET
1 049mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
244cm
Forest
98%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)