HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081457700
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 : Calai, Mavinga, Nancova
Sub-basin area
640,7km²
Upstream area
49 534,2km²
Discharge
96,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 152m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Utembo1886 km²
- Bassin de Cuito1754 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mavinga374.4 km²58.6% of basin
- 183.3 km²28.7% of basin
- Nancova80.9 km²12.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
0.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
61 distinct species · 97 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,9°C
Annual rain
672mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
1 904mm
AET
567mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
204cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)