HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081419650
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 2 administrative regions : Matala, Tchipungo
Sub-basin area
622,2km²
Upstream area
35 941km²
Discharge
261,9m³/s
Mean elev.
1 260m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cunene229 km²
- Bassin de Ponte de Ferro71 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 619.4 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bicuar National Park
IUCN IINational Park
112.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
121 distinct species · 160 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Cunene : 11 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 13 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 19.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,0°C
Annual rain
847mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
99mm/an
PET
1 802mm
AET
716mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
272cm
Forest
7%
Crops
1%
Urban
4%
Protected
55%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)