HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081441610
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 3 administrative regions : Cuito Cuanavale, Mavinga, Nancova
Sub-basin area
1 846,1km²
Upstream area
1 846,1km²
Discharge
4,5m³/s
Mean elev.
1 216m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mavinga1246.7 km²67.8% of basin
- 589.0 km²32.0% of basin
- Nancova4.0 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
1518.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 15 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
778mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 884mm
AET
657mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
151cm
Forest
1%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)