HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081422860
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 2 administrative regions : Jamba, Matala
Sub-basin area
570,9km²
Upstream area
38 352km²
Discharge
269,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 262m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cunene906 km²
- Bassin de Cunene136 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 490.2 km²86.2% of basin
- 78.7 km²13.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bicuar National Park
IUCN IINational Park
110.65 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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
818mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
97mm/an
PET
1 837mm
AET
691mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
296cm
Forest
43%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)