HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081386480
Bassin de Luâmbua
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 : Chitembo, Cuito Cuanavale, Menongue
Sub-basin area
1 458,8km²
Upstream area
1 458,8km²
Discharge
8,8m³/s
Mean elev.
1 465m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1377.6 km²94.8% of basin
- Menongue65.4 km²4.5% of basin
- 10.3 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 129mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
234mm/an
PET
1 769mm
AET
949mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
416cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)