Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081361550

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: 11765018

Sub-basin area

1 234,3km²

Upstream area

1 234,6km²

Discharge

21,55m³/s

Mean elev.

491m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rovuma109 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

4 intersecting protected areas

  • Mwambesi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Nature Forest Reserve

    23.65 km² overlap

  • Mwambesi GCA

    IUCN Not Reported

    Game controlled area

    4.15 km² overlap

  • Sasawara

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    1.10 km² overlap

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Special Reserve

    0.00 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 distinct species · 50 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

50 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 50
50–49
50–49
50–49
< 50

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°

24,9°C

Annual rain

1 077mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,35

Runoff

541mm/an

PET

1 654mm

AET

854mm

Mean slope

1,4°

Water table

129cm

Forest

66%

Crops

9%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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