HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081391070
Bassin de Cuito
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 : Luchazes
Sub-basin area
54,1km²
Upstream area
4 058km²
Discharge
42,23m³/s
Mean elev.
1 360m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuito1520 km²
- Bassin de Cuito411 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuchazesMoxico · Angola53.9 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 131mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
231mm/an
PET
1 819mm
AET
953mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
275cm
Forest
30%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)