HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081409950
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 : Chicomba, Chipindo, Jamba
Sub-basin area
265,8km²
Upstream area
3 491km²
Discharge
12,44m³/s
Mean elev.
1 338m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081408950151 km²
- Bassin · #1081408860103 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 189.8 km²71.7% of basin
- 72.9 km²27.5% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 6 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
965mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
176mm/an
PET
1 767mm
AET
816mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
337cm
Forest
98%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)