Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081408230

Bassin de Bentiaba

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 : Bibala, Camacuio, Namibe

Pfafstetter: 13135043

Sub-basin area

383,1km²

Upstream area

6 066,7km²

Discharge

23,38m³/s

Mean elev.

582m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Bentiaba327 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Namibe
    Namibe · Angola
    234.5 km²
    61.4% of basin
  • Camacuio
    Namibe · Angola
    144.3 km²
    37.8% of basin
  • Bibala
    Namibe · Angola
    3.0 km²
    0.8% of basin

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 2

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

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,6°C

Annual rain

366mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,75

Runoff

53mm/an

PET

1 493mm

AET

311mm

Mean slope

7,2°

Water table

670cm

Forest

0%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

32%

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