HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081449280
Bassin de Curoca
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 : Curoca, Tombwa, Virei
Sub-basin area
242,1km²
Upstream area
5 397,1km²
Discharge
10,26m³/s
Mean elev.
1 043m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Curoca241 km²
- Bassin de Curoca57 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- VireiNamibe · Angola145.0 km²60.1% of basin
- 96.2 km²39.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
331mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 549mm
AET
280mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
596cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)