HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080012730
Bassin de Rio Matola
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 6 administrative regions : Boane, Manhiça, Maputo, Marracuene, Moamba
Sub-basin area
1 147,8km²
Upstream area
1 147,9km²
Discharge
6,24m³/s
Mean elev.
64m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,3°C
Annual rain
736mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
158mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
622mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
182cm
Forest
81%
Crops
7%
Urban
10%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)