HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081406890
Bassin de Cuito
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 : Cuito Cuanavale, Luchazes
Sub-basin area
515,9km²
Upstream area
11 074km²
Discharge
60,74m³/s
Mean elev.
1 347m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuito1182 km²
- Bassin de Cuito641 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuchazesMoxico · Angola384.1 km²74.7% of basin
- 129.9 km²25.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
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 007mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
31mm/an
PET
1 872mm
AET
851mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
359cm
Forest
98%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)