HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081363270
Bassin de Lumeje
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, Cameia, Léua
Sub-basin area
295,3km²
Upstream area
3 612,2km²
Discharge
27,77m³/s
Mean elev.
1 146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lumeje1944 km²
- Bassin de Lumeje450 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 184.3 km²62.6% of basin
- 103.1 km²35.0% of basin
- CamanongueMoxico · Angola6.8 km²2.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cameia National Park
IUCN IINational Park
91.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 40 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
1 275mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
371mm/an
PET
1 835mm
AET
1 053mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
70cm
Forest
81%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)