Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081375440

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 : Alto Zambeze, Lucano

Pfafstetter: 12299030

Sub-basin area

514,8km²

Upstream area

21 894,6km²

Discharge

188,65m³/s

Mean elev.

1 082m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luena417 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Lucano
    Moxico · Angola
    274.5 km²
    53.5% of basin
  • Alto Zambeze
    Moxico · Angola
    238.3 km²
    46.5% of basin

1 intersecting protected areas

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.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

19,8°C

Annual rain

1 220mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,35

Runoff

319mm/an

PET

1 867mm

AET

1 025mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

13cm

Forest

36%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

46%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)