HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081358210
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 3 administrative regions : Cassongue, Seles, Sumbe
Sub-basin area
1 118,7km²
Upstream area
4 628,7km²
Discharge
44,65m³/s
Mean elev.
759m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuchi1246 km²
- Bassin de Cubal215 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 619.4 km²55.6% of basin
- Sumbe491.9 km²44.1% of basin
- 3.0 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
848mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
189mm/an
PET
1 541mm
AET
718mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
532cm
Forest
74%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)