HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081373210
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 3 administrative regions : Alto Zambeze, Cameia, Moxico
Sub-basin area
285,8km²
Upstream area
17 670,7km²
Discharge
151,76m³/s
Mean elev.
1 104m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luena748 km²
- Bassin · #1081373330617 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 149.8 km²52.6% of basin
- Alto ZambezeMoxico · Angola134.6 km²47.3% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cameia National Park
IUCN IINational Park
105.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
1 216mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
344mm/an
PET
1 863mm
AET
1 021mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
15cm
Forest
15%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
49%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)