HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081478050
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 1 administrative regions : Mopeia
Sub-basin area
456,8km²
Upstream area
5 474,7km²
Discharge
65,99m³/s
Mean elev.
11m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cuacua485 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cuacua211 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mopeia455.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zambezi Delta
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
455.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 10 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 073mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
472mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
908mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
5cm
Forest
67%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)