HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081394780
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 2 administrative regions : Luchazes, Moxico
Sub-basin area
1 782,8km²
Upstream area
1 782,9km²
Discharge
7,57m³/s
Mean elev.
1 394m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuchazesMoxico · Angola1301.8 km²73.3% of basin
- 474.2 km²26.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 57 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 128mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
129mm/an
PET
1 846mm
AET
948mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
434cm
Forest
89%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)