Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081479470

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

Pfafstetter: 11798065

Sub-basin area

625km²

Upstream area

3 260,6km²

Discharge

37,81m³/s

Mean elev.

28m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rio Cuacua211 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Zambezi Delta

    IUCN IV

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    623.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

31 distinct species · 43 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

43 obs · 6 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 38
38–37
1–37
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

25,3°C

Annual rain

994mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,45

Runoff

419mm/an

PET

1 796mm

AET

840mm

Mean slope

0,2°

Water table

19cm

Forest

52%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)