HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081382360
Bassin de Catumbela
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 : Ganda
Sub-basin area
98km²
Upstream area
7 257km²
Discharge
128,71m³/s
Mean elev.
1 410m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Catumbela1785 km²
- Bassin de Cuiva349 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GandaBenguela · Angola97.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 328mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
430mm/an
PET
1 598mm
AET
1 031mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
414cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)