HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081365960
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
243,7km²
Upstream area
1 678,9km²
Discharge
19,69m³/s
Mean elev.
1 064m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cubal825 km²
- Bassin de Cubal611 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 140.9 km²58.1% of basin
- BocoioBenguela · Angola98.2 km²40.5% of basin
- Sumbe3.6 km²1.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 15 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 034mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
345mm/an
PET
1 615mm
AET
875mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
415cm
Forest
99%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)