HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081479920
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
211,3km²
Upstream area
4 532,7km²
Discharge
53,46m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10814793101061 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cuacua625 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mopeia210.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zambezi Delta
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
210.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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 019mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
446mm/an
PET
1 753mm
AET
861mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
8cm
Forest
52%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)