HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081441490
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 2 administrative regions : Cuito Cuanavale, Nancova
Sub-basin area
25,7km²
Upstream area
28 863,4km²
Discharge
80,06m³/s
Mean elev.
1 161m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuito1128 km²
- Bassin de Cuito686 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nancova19.4 km²75.7% of basin
- 6.2 km²24.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
23.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,6°C
Annual rain
753mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
69mm/an
PET
1 908mm
AET
636mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
129cm
Forest
25%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)