HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081420980
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 1 administrative regions : Matala
Sub-basin area
135,7km²
Upstream area
36 874,8km²
Discharge
264,89m³/s
Mean elev.
1 229m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cunene798 km²
- Bassin de Cunene622 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Bicuar National Park
IUCN IINational Park
0.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
819mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
96mm/an
PET
1 829mm
AET
692mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
236cm
Forest
22%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)