HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080011720
Bassin · #1080011720
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 : Marromeu
Sub-basin area
455,1km²
Upstream area
4 653,3km²
Discharge
38,59m³/s
Mean elev.
4m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081491010494 km²
- Bassin · #1081491000215 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Marromeu453.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Marromeu
IUCN IVNational Reserve
453.67 km² overlap
Zambezi Delta
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
449.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 104mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
308mm/an
PET
1 599mm
AET
933mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
6cm
Forest
54%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)