HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081432780
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
937,6km²
Upstream area
26 253,9km²
Discharge
74,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10814281201829 km²
- Bassin de Cuito1744 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 934.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
117.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 12 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
815mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 891mm
AET
688mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
242cm
Forest
24%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)