Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081361660

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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Mecula, Tunduru

Pfafstetter: 11765019

Sub-basin area

233km²

Upstream area

53 616,9km²

Discharge

931,98m³/s

Mean elev.

371m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rovuma109 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Special Reserve

    135.15 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 distinct species · 47 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

47 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 46
46–45
46–45
46–45
< 46

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°

25,7°C

Annual rain

1 131mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,33

Runoff

519mm/an

PET

1 696mm

AET

885mm

Mean slope

0,8°

Water table

55cm

Forest

0%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

56%

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