HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081425770
Bassin de Rio Cuiriri
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
2 208,4km²
Upstream area
2 921,3km²
Discharge
2,81m³/s
Mean elev.
1 363m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cuiriri360 km²
- Bassin · #1081406690353 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2200.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
1145.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
48 distinct species · 72 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
941mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 873mm
AET
795mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
299cm
Forest
73%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)