HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081418920
Bassin de Quembo
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 : Cuito Cuanavale, Luchazes, Mavinga
Sub-basin area
285,8km²
Upstream area
8 572,6km²
Discharge
14,21m³/s
Mean elev.
1 207m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuva825 km²
- Bassin de Quembo133 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mavinga200.2 km²70.3% of basin
- LuchazesMoxico · Angola67.4 km²23.7% of basin
- 17.2 km²6.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
871mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
57mm/an
PET
1 885mm
AET
735mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
269cm
Forest
98%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)