HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081340660
Bassin · #1081340660
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 : Mutshatsha
Sub-basin area
705,3km²
Upstream area
3 520,1km²
Discharge
26,34m³/s
Mean elev.
1 133m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10813445901078 km²
- Bassin · #1081344600797 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 702.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lac Tshangalele
IUCN Not ReportedNature reserve
464.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
48 distinct species · 65 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
1 247mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
216mm/an
PET
1 750mm
AET
990mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
250cm
Forest
100%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
66%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)