HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081140230
Bassin de Maringa
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 3 administrative regions : Befale, Boende, Bokungu
Sub-basin area
1 230,9km²
Upstream area
14 024,6km²
Discharge
426,05m³/s
Mean elev.
401m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Maringa453 km²
- Bassin de Dwale325 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 761.2 km²62.1% of basin
- 385.5 km²31.5% of basin
- 78.7 km²6.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
39 distinct species · 47 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
2 121mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
938mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
1 616mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
56cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)