HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081432900
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
770,2km²
Upstream area
770,5km²
Discharge
1,84m³/s
Mean elev.
1 253m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 767.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
767.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
41 distinct species · 53 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
832mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 895mm
AET
703mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
282cm
Forest
16%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)