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HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081357640

Bassin · #1081357640

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: 11765014

Sub-basin area

638,6km²

Upstream area

638,6km²

Discharge

11,23m³/s

Mean elev.

402m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rovuma170 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Mwambesi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Nature Forest Reserve

    563.29 km² overlap

  • Mwambesi GCA

    IUCN Not Reported

    Game controlled area

    558.88 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 4 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

4 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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°

25,4°C

Annual rain

1 043mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,38

Runoff

545mm/an

PET

1 688mm

AET

850mm

Mean slope

0,6°

Water table

45cm

Forest

60%

Crops

8%

Urban

0%

Protected

85%

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