HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081363780
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 : Bocoio, Cassongue, Sumbe
Sub-basin area
214,6km²
Upstream area
2 264,6km²
Discharge
25,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 056m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cassema371 km²
- Bassin de Cubal244 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 124.7 km²58.3% of basin
- Sumbe87.8 km²41.1% of basin
- BocoioBenguela · Angola1.3 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
993mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
326mm/an
PET
1 608mm
AET
840mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
478cm
Forest
99%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)