Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081385000

Bassin de Chicanda

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 : Longonjo, Ukuma

Pfafstetter: 13138068

Sub-basin area

269km²

Upstream area

269,2km²

Discharge

4,3m³/s

Mean elev.

1 583m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Chicanda35 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Longonjo
    Huambo · Angola
    267.9 km²
    100.0% of basin
  • Ukuma
    Huambo · Angola
    0.1 km²
    0.0% of basin

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

Species present

38 distinct species · 52 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

52 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 40
40–39
8–39
2–7
< 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°

19,0°C

Annual rain

1 221mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,24

Runoff

494mm/an

PET

1 612mm

AET

1 002mm

Mean slope

4,5°

Water table

330cm

Forest

91%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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