HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081434880
Bassin de Cunene
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 : Matala
Sub-basin area
1 046,9km²
Upstream area
41 751,1km²
Discharge
274,23m³/s
Mean elev.
1 190m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ochi2352 km²
- Bassin de Cunene571 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Bicuar National Park
IUCN IINational Park
472.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
69 distinct species · 106 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Cunene : 16 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 1 bulle famille, 16 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 11.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,1°C
Annual rain
729mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 883mm
AET
615mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
237cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)