Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081379940

Bassin de Longonho

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 1 administrative regions : Alto Zambeze

Pfafstetter: 12297090

Sub-basin area

1 419,9km²

Upstream area

67 287,2km²

Discharge

615,78m³/s

Mean elev.

1 088m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Zambezi602 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Alto Zambeze
    Moxico · Angola
    1414.5 km²
    100.0% 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 · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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°

19,4°C

Annual rain

1 201mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,36

Runoff

269mm/an

PET

1 864mm

AET

1 012mm

Mean slope

0,2°

Water table

48cm

Forest

18%

Crops

2%

Urban

1%

Protected

0%

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