HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081477450
Bassin de Rio Cuacua
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 : Inhassunge, Mopeia, Nicoadala
Sub-basin area
431,9km²
Upstream area
12 445,1km²
Discharge
146,92m³/s
Mean elev.
5m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lualua1953 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cuacua457 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mopeia314.8 km²73.1% of basin
- 77.4 km²18.0% of basin
- 38.3 km²8.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zambezi Delta
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
430.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 187mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
514mm/an
PET
1 679mm
AET
1 003mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
47%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)