HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081479540
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 1 administrative regions : Dirico
Sub-basin area
868,8km²
Upstream area
58 302,5km²
Discharge
74,24m³/s
Mean elev.
1 082m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cuito1999 km²
- Bassin de Cuito981 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dirico866.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
419 distinct species · 2 511 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Cuito : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 1 bulle famille, 9 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,7°C
Annual rain
592mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
1 858mm
AET
499mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
45cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)