HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080019030
Bassin de Cubal
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 : Lobito
Sub-basin area
23,6km²
Upstream area
2 799,9km²
Discharge
15,46m³/s
Mean elev.
122m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cubal503 km²
- Bassin de Cubal192 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LobitoBenguela · Angola23.5 km²99.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 24 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
400mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 408mm
AET
343mm
Mean slope
7,9°
Water table
653cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)