HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081368050
Bassin de Luatamba
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 : Léua, Moxico
Sub-basin area
750,9km²
Upstream area
4 485,4km²
Discharge
34,34m³/s
Mean elev.
1 195m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luena365 km²
- Bassin de Luena338 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 403.0 km²53.9% of basin
- 345.0 km²46.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 229mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
317mm/an
PET
1 815mm
AET
1 024mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
173cm
Forest
91%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)