HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081446870
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
1 230,4km²
Upstream area
31 939,6km²
Discharge
87,31m³/s
Mean elev.
1 199m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuito1846 km²
- Bassin de Cuito26 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mavinga665.7 km²54.3% of basin
- Nancova541.4 km²44.2% of basin
- 19.1 km²1.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
1226.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
35 distinct species · 47 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 6 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 Cuito : 5 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 5 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 33.3%, 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
745mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 893mm
AET
629mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
208cm
Forest
2%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)