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