HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081421750

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 3 administrative regions : Luchazes, Lumbala-Nguimbo, Mavinga

Pfafstetter: 12287020

Sub-basin area

1 790,7km²

Upstream area

1 790,9km²

Discharge

2,81m³/s

Mean elev.

1 206m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cuando1313 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Lumbala-Nguimbo
Moxico · Angola
1716.6 km²
96.2% of basin
Luchazes
Moxico · Angola
63.1 km²
3.5% of basin
Mavinga
Cuando Cubango · Angola
4.5 km²
0.3% 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°

20,4°C

Annual rain

943mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,49

Runoff

59mm/an

PET

1 863mm

AET

797mm

Mean slope

1,2°

Water table

205cm

Forest

84%

Crops

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)