Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081368760

Bassin de Cuvelo

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 2 administrative regions : Bocoio, Lobito

Pfafstetter: 13139042

Sub-basin area

288,1km²

Upstream area

288,2km²

Discharge

1,51m³/s

Mean elev.

906m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cuombo509 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Lobito
    Benguela · Angola
    185.2 km²
    64.6% of basin
  • Bocoio
    Benguela · Angola
    101.7 km²
    35.4% 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.

Densité d'observations

4 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 3
3–2
3–2
3–2
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,9°C

Annual rain

933mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,39

Runoff

166mm/an

PET

1 532mm

AET

790mm

Mean slope

8,8°

Water table

626cm

Forest

24%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)