HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081424310
Bassin de Rio Luassinga
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 : Cuito Cuanavale
Sub-basin area
1 210,1km²
Upstream area
2 164,9km²
Discharge
1,99m³/s
Mean elev.
1 375m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Luassinga515 km²
- Bassin de Rio Luassinga440 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1205.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
924mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
1 871mm
AET
781mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
340cm
Forest
89%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)