HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081410900
Bassin de Cuando
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 1 administrative regions : Luchazes
Sub-basin area
494,2km²
Upstream area
4 806,9km²
Discharge
11,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 230m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuando420 km²
- Bassin de Cuando380 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuchazesMoxico · Angola492.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
945mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
31mm/an
PET
1 906mm
AET
798mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
358cm
Forest
99%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)