HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081373220
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
1 015,9km²
Upstream area
19 635,1km²
Discharge
170,78m³/s
Mean elev.
1 105m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081373360948 km²
- Bassin de Luena286 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Alto ZambezeMoxico · Angola538.3 km²53.2% of basin
- 418.2 km²41.3% of basin
- 55.5 km²5.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cameia National Park
IUCN IINational Park
289.63 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,2°C
Annual rain
1 215mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
335mm/an
PET
1 864mm
AET
1 020mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
8cm
Forest
10%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)