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
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°
21,3°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)