HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081415400
Bassin de Quembo
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 : Cuito Cuanavale, Luchazes
Sub-basin area
519,5km²
Upstream area
6 580km²
Discharge
12,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 225m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lupire764 km²
- Bassin de Quembo571 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuchazesMoxico · Angola446.4 km²86.2% of basin
- 71.3 km²13.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,2°C
Annual rain
915mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
1 899mm
AET
772mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
292cm
Forest
89%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)