HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081454250
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
Sub-basin area
193,1km²
Upstream area
54 352km²
Discharge
236m³/s
Mean elev.
1 116m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cunene451 km²
- Bassin de Cunene124 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 74 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
624mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
1 924mm
AET
525mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
31cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)