HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081420360
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 2 administrative regions : Luchazes, Mavinga
Sub-basin area
767,4km²
Upstream area
20 613,3km²
Discharge
30,44m³/s
Mean elev.
1 189m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuando1123 km²
- Bassin de Quembo654 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LuchazesMoxico · Angola478.5 km²62.6% of basin
- Mavinga286.1 km²37.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
871mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
61mm/an
PET
1 874mm
AET
735mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
211cm
Forest
97%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)