HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080012590
Bassin de Rio Limpopo
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 5 administrative regions : Bilene, Chibuto, Chókwè, Mandlakazi, Xai-Xai
Sub-basin area
2 666,7km²
Upstream area
407 139km²
Discharge
308,77m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Limpopo2423 km²
- Bassin de Changane River364 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1379.9 km²51.9% of basin
- 762.3 km²28.6% of basin
- Chibuto500.9 km²18.8% of basin
- 14.0 km²0.5% of basin
- 3.9 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 038 distinct species · 4 756 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Rio Limpopo : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,1°C
Annual rain
869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
153mm/an
PET
1 662mm
AET
736mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
137cm
Forest
67%
Crops
5%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)