Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081449620

Bassin de Cunene

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 : Ombadja

Pfafstetter: 13123007

Sub-basin area

460,3km²

Upstream area

52 712,8km²

Discharge

266,9m³/s

Mean elev.

1 130m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

24 distinct species · 49 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

49 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 29
29–28
14–28
3–13
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,3°C

Annual rain

659mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,66

Runoff

42mm/an

PET

1 965mm

AET

555mm

Mean slope

0,2°

Water table

48cm

Forest

0%

Crops

3%

Urban

1%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)