HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081323240
Bassin de Lwi
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 : Mucari, Quela, Xá Muteba
Sub-basin area
185,6km²
Upstream area
5 584,9km²
Discharge
42,92m³/s
Mean elev.
737m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lwi500 km²
- Bassin de Lwi184 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 41 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
1 250mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
1 863mm
AET
1 056mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
76cm
Forest
8%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)