Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081382880

Bassin de Cuiva

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 : Longonjo, Ukuma

Pfafstetter: 13138065

Sub-basin area

102km²

Upstream area

1 114,5km²

Discharge

19,87m³/s

Mean elev.

1 517m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cuiva227 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Ukuma
    Huambo · Angola
    100.6 km²
    99.0% of basin
  • Longonjo
    Huambo · Angola
    1.0 km²
    1.0% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

10 distinct species · 15 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

15 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 15
15–14
15–14
15–14
< 15

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°

19,4°C

Annual rain

1 220mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,24

Runoff

558mm/an

PET

1 610mm

AET

1 014mm

Mean slope

6,8°

Water table

438cm

Forest

82%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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