Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081356630

Bassin de Rovuma

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 : Tunduru

Pfafstetter: 11765012

Sub-basin area

1 285,9km²

Upstream area

1 285,9km²

Discharge

22,49m³/s

Mean elev.

542m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rovuma345 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Mwambesi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Nature Forest Reserve

    108.88 km² overlap

  • Mwambesi GCA

    IUCN Not Reported

    Game controlled area

    101.19 km² overlap

  • Sasawara

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    13.57 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

11 distinct species · 42 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

42 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 31
31–30
9–30
9–8
< 9

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

24,5°C

Annual rain

1 030mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,37

Runoff

534mm/an

PET

1 641mm

AET

834mm

Mean slope

2,0°

Water table

171cm

Forest

44%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

8%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)