Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081388090

Bassin de Luio

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 : Luchazes, Moxico

Pfafstetter: 12294609

Sub-basin area

2 271,4km²

Upstream area

2 271,4km²

Discharge

4,97m³/s

Mean elev.

1 363m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Luio460 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Moxico
    Moxico · Angola
    1848.4 km²
    81.7% of basin
  • Luchazes
    Moxico · Angola
    414.3 km²
    18.3% of basin

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

Species present

4 distinct species · 5 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

5 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 3
3–2
3–2
1–2
< 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°

20,9°C

Annual rain

1 139mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,38

Runoff

106mm/an

PET

1 841mm

AET

958mm

Mean slope

2,4°

Water table

433cm

Forest

91%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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