HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081398000
Bassin de Cunene
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 4 administrative regions : Caconda, Caála, Chipindo, Kuvango
Sub-basin area
1 387,3km²
Upstream area
6 095,8km²
Discharge
64,85m³/s
Mean elev.
1 611m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cassilo2735 km²
- Bassin de Rio Congevi1974 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 888.0 km²64.3% of basin
- 485.1 km²35.1% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.4% of basin
- 3.6 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
19,2°C
Annual rain
1 154mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
235mm/an
PET
1 670mm
AET
957mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
257cm
Forest
96%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)