HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081409850
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, Chicomba, Chipindo
Sub-basin area
549,6km²
Upstream area
14 394,8km²
Discharge
143,65m³/s
Mean elev.
1 372m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10814056501390 km²
- Bassin de Cunene97 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 389.4 km²71.1% of basin
- 154.0 km²28.1% of basin
- 4.3 km²0.8% 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 016mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
230mm/an
PET
1 737mm
AET
858mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
287cm
Forest
86%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)