Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081360590

Bassin de Chicaluege

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, Lucano

Pfafstetter: 12298229

Sub-basin area

813,2km²

Upstream area

813,2km²

Discharge

8,42m³/s

Mean elev.

1 105m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Chicaluege259 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Lucano
    Moxico · Angola
    603.1 km²
    74.5% of basin
  • Luau
    Moxico · Angola
    206.9 km²
    25.5% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 distinct species · 5 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

5 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
5–4
5–4
< 5

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,6°C

Annual rain

1 335mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,30

Runoff

327mm/an

PET

1 918mm

AET

1 090mm

Mean slope

0,3°

Water table

70cm

Forest

53%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)