Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081394770

Bassin de Cuando

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

Pfafstetter: 12289080

Sub-basin area

351,3km²

Upstream area

351,3km²

Discharge

1,09m³/s

Mean elev.

1 376m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cuando1164 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Luchazes
    Moxico · Angola
    350.0 km²
    100.0% of basin

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 1 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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°

21,2°C

Annual rain

1 090mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,42

Runoff

93mm/an

PET

1 869mm

AET

921mm

Mean slope

2,6°

Water table

465cm

Forest

99%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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