HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081399810
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 3 administrative regions : Caconda, Caála, Chipindo
Sub-basin area
93,3km²
Upstream area
8 775,2km²
Discharge
95,66m³/s
Mean elev.
1 500m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cussusso2586 km²
- Bassin de Cunene1387 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 92.1 km²99.1% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.4% 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
1 114mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
254mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
932mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
244cm
Forest
72%
Crops
2%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)