HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081468650
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, Dirico, Mavinga
Sub-basin area
437,6km²
Upstream area
53 791,9km²
Discharge
97,89m³/s
Mean elev.
1 116m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuito366 km²
- Bassin de Cuito302 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 239.8 km²55.0% of basin
- Mavinga130.8 km²30.0% of basin
- Dirico65.7 km²15.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 14 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
601mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 883mm
AET
506mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
195cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)