HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081415290
Bassin de Luia River
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 : Chifunde
Sub-basin area
19km²
Upstream area
5 087km²
Discharge
38,88m³/s
Mean elev.
704m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Vúboè1919 km²
- Bassin de Luia River352 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Chifunde18.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tchuma tchato
IUCN VICommunity Conservation Area
12.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
977mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
230mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
825mm
Mean slope
10,5°
Water table
645cm
Forest
68%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)