HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081402930
Bassin de Luanginga
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 : Lumbala-Nguimbo
Sub-basin area
284,5km²
Upstream area
284,7km²
Discharge
0,97m³/s
Mean elev.
1 123m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lumbala-NguimboMoxico · Angola283.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 5 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
1 055mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
110mm/an
PET
1 883mm
AET
891mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
177cm
Forest
94%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)