HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081419950
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kalabo, Lumbala-Nguimbo, Sikongo
Sub-basin area
1 764,6km²
Upstream area
20 091,2km²
Discharge
31,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 042m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luanginga415 km²
- Bassin de Luanginga35 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1552.3 km²88.3% of basin
- 159.7 km²9.1% of basin
- Lumbala-NguimboMoxico · Angola46.2 km²2.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
West Zambezi
IUCN VIGame Management Area
1223.75 km² overlap
Liuwa Plain
IUCN IINational Park
478.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
266 distinct species · 1 304 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Luanginga : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,7°C
Annual rain
1 072mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 924mm
AET
904mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
10cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)