HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081362260
Bassin de Lugenda
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 : Mecula, Montepuez, Mueda
Sub-basin area
304,1km²
Upstream area
58 070,9km²
Discharge
708,97m³/s
Mean elev.
214m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lugenda1066 km²
- Bassin de Lugenda36 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 229.5 km²75.8% of basin
- 73.4 km²24.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
302.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 14 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 028mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
470mm/an
PET
1 776mm
AET
862mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
107cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)