HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080011180
Bassin de Rio 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 2 administrative regions : Moma, Pebane
Sub-basin area
2 405,8km²
Upstream area
14 851,3km²
Discharge
149,72m³/s
Mean elev.
91m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Ligonha1600 km²
- Bassin de Rio Namiroe267 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Pebane1403.4 km²58.5% of basin
- MomaNampula · Mozambique994.3 km²41.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Primeiras & Segundas
IUCN VEnvironmental Protection Area
41.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 214mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
347mm/an
PET
1 653mm
AET
1 000mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
103cm
Forest
92%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)