HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081439000
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
1 741km²
Upstream area
45 530km²
Discharge
52,97m³/s
Mean elev.
1 074m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lomba2137 km²
- Bassin de Cuando690 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Rivungo929.9 km²53.6% of basin
- Lumbala-NguimboMoxico · Angola803.4 km²46.3% of basin
- Mavinga1.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
768.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
70 distinct species · 136 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 Cuando : 10 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,4°C
Annual rain
833mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 864mm
AET
703mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
84cm
Forest
11%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)