Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081419860

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

Pfafstetter: 12289010

Sub-basin area

1 122,7km²

Upstream area

9 731,2km²

Discharge

15,63m³/s

Mean elev.

1 206m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cuando767 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Luchazes
    Moxico · Angola
    1118.7 km²
    100.0% 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.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,9°C

Annual rain

903mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,52

Runoff

62mm/an

PET

1 888mm

AET

763mm

Mean slope

1,9°

Water table

268cm

Forest

97%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)