HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081363720
Bassin de Luhasso
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 : Camacupa, Cuemba, Luquembo
Sub-basin area
1 196,6km²
Upstream area
29 237,2km²
Discharge
376,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 324m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuiva441 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cuanza160 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 694.4 km²58.3% of basin
- 483.7 km²40.6% of basin
- LuquemboMalanje · Angola13.9 km²1.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Integral Nature Reserve
214.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
96 distinct species · 173 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Luhasso : 8 espèces + 0 bulles famille, 4 interactions GloBI documentées sur 1 type (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,4°C
Annual rain
1 292mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
468mm/an
PET
1 738mm
AET
1 027mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
153cm
Forest
99%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)