Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081382820

Bassin de Apupa

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 4 administrative regions : Caála, Ekunha, Longonjo, Ukuma

Pfafstetter: 13138064

Sub-basin area

593,1km²

Upstream area

593,5km²

Discharge

12,12m³/s

Mean elev.

1 733m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cuiva227 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Longonjo
    Huambo · Angola
    359.9 km²
    60.9% of basin
  • Ukuma
    Huambo · Angola
    168.4 km²
    28.5% of basin
  • Ekunha
    Huambo · Angola
    47.9 km²
    8.1% of basin
  • Caála
    Huambo · Angola
    14.6 km²
    2.5% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

11 distinct species · 11 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

11 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 9
9–8
9–8
9–8
< 9

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°

18,8°C

Annual rain

1 273mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,20

Runoff

586mm/an

PET

1 587mm

AET

1 029mm

Mean slope

9,0°

Water table

465cm

Forest

99%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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