HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081428050
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
1 743,6km²
Upstream area
23 487,1km²
Discharge
70,68m³/s
Mean elev.
1 240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cuanavale657 km²
- Bassin de Cuito117 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1737.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
378.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
130 distinct species · 251 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Cuito : 13 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 10 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,0°C
Annual rain
851mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 889mm
AET
719mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
240cm
Forest
49%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)