HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081371750
Bassin de Luena
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 : Cameia, Moxico
Sub-basin area
872,5km²
Upstream area
12 154,8km²
Discharge
101,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 123m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lumeje244 km²
- Bassin de Luena116 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 730.9 km²84.1% of basin
- 138.2 km²15.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cameia National Park
IUCN IINational Park
223.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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 213mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
352mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
1 018mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
16cm
Forest
17%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)