HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081420920
Bassin de Cuito
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 : Cuito Cuanavale
Sub-basin area
1 168,8km²
Upstream area
13 790,6km²
Discharge
54,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081410570441 km²
- Bassin de Cuito395 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1164.6 km²100.0% 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
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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
934mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
1 887mm
AET
789mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
323cm
Forest
94%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)