Ontologia

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

EndorheicPfafstetter: 12960570

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

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

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.

Densité d'observations

12 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 6
6–5
3–5
1–2
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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)