Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081357890

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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Mecula, Mueda, Nanyumbu

Pfafstetter: 11763001

Sub-basin area

332,2km²

Upstream area

76 462,8km²

Discharge

1 280,7m³/s

Mean elev.

201m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Special Reserve

    154.01 km² overlap

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

Species present

16 distinct species · 23 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

23 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 13
13–12
13–12
8–12
< 8

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°

26,5°C

Annual rain

967mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,45

Runoff

382mm/an

PET

1 773mm

AET

815mm

Mean slope

1,1°

Water table

101cm

Forest

7%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

45%

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