Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081403430

Bassin de Rio Cuanavale

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

EndorheicPfafstetter: 12960609

Sub-basin area

2 032,9km²

Upstream area

2 032,9km²

Discharge

7,93m³/s

Mean elev.

1 419m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Luchazes
    Moxico · Angola
    2004.7 km²
    99.0% of basin
  • Moxico
    Moxico · Angola
    20.6 km²
    1.0% of basin

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

Species present

337 distinct species · 899 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

899 obs · 21 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 716
27–715
8–26
3–7
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Graphe en cours d’indexation

Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.

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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,7°C

Annual rain

1 104mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,40

Runoff

124mm/an

PET

1 841mm

AET

928mm

Mean slope

2,3°

Water table

435cm

Forest

86%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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