HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081421000
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
349,1km²
Upstream area
349,1km²
Discharge
0,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 347.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
50.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
916mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
1 885mm
AET
773mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
362cm
Forest
78%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)