HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081431380
Bassin de Cuando
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 3 administrative regions : Lumbala-Nguimbo, Mavinga, Rivungo
Sub-basin area
689,5km²
Upstream area
38 142,3km²
Discharge
40,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 096m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuando1313 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cueio55 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mavinga512.3 km²74.6% of basin
- Lumbala-NguimboMoxico · Angola161.6 km²23.5% of basin
- Rivungo13.2 km²1.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
418.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
848mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 864mm
AET
716mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
142cm
Forest
16%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)