HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081460430
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 : Cuangar
Sub-basin area
765km²
Upstream area
57 090,8km²
Discharge
169,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 163m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cubango193 km²
- Bassin de Cubango117 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cuangar762.5 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 30 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
677mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
1 943mm
AET
571mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
203cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)