HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081369330
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 : Alto Zambeze, Lucano
Sub-basin area
496,3km²
Upstream area
5 555,4km²
Discharge
59,62m³/s
Mean elev.
1 080m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chicaluege562 km²
- Bassin de Chicaluege10 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Alto ZambezeMoxico · Angola316.0 km²63.9% of basin
- 178.3 km²36.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
1 288mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
364mm/an
PET
1 889mm
AET
1 056mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
9cm
Forest
13%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)