HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081428910
Bassin de Cuchi
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 : Cuchi, Menongue
Sub-basin area
450,6km²
Upstream area
13 514,7km²
Discharge
39,51m³/s
Mean elev.
1 286m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuchi2110 km²
- Bassin de Cuchi1745 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 448.5 km²99.9% of basin
- Menongue0.5 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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
833mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 905mm
AET
703mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
326cm
Forest
23%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)