HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081448910
Bassin de Cubango
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 : Menongue
Sub-basin area
154,3km²
Upstream area
54 364,2km²
Discharge
165,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 171m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cueio3688 km²
- Bassin de Cubango792 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Menongue153.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 16 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,3°C
Annual rain
712mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 949mm
AET
600mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
311cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)