HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081410480
Bassin de Cuelei
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 : Chitembo, Cuchi, Menongue
Sub-basin area
285,9km²
Upstream area
4 895,5km²
Discharge
15,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 470m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuelei2059 km²
- Bassin de Cusseque367 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Menongue199.6 km²70.1% of basin
- 82.8 km²29.1% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.9% 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
1 001mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 808mm
AET
846mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
284cm
Forest
98%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)