HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081374450
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, Lucano
Sub-basin area
225,8km²
Upstream area
20 231,4km²
Discharge
175,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 086m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luena1016 km²
- Bassin de Luena370 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 178.8 km²79.5% of basin
- Alto ZambezeMoxico · Angola34.1 km²15.2% of basin
- 12.0 km²5.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cameia National Park
IUCN IINational Park
107.06 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
1 229mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
338mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
1 030mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
26%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
78%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)