HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080011170
Bassin de Ligonha
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 : Moma
Sub-basin area
272km²
Upstream area
272km²
Discharge
2,91m³/s
Mean elev.
22m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MomaNampula · Mozambique256.4 km²94.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Primeiras & Segundas
IUCN VEnvironmental Protection Area
139.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 8 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 186mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
338mm/an
PET
1 589mm
AET
979mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
52cm
Forest
60%
Crops
5%
Urban
15%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)