HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081362400
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 : Namtumbo
Sub-basin area
1 613,7km²
Upstream area
1 614,1km²
Discharge
23,81m³/s
Mean elev.
648m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Mtungwe O.A. (C)
IUCN Not ReportedOpen area
786.59 km² overlap
Ruvuma O.A.
IUCN Not ReportedOpen area
352.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 156mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
461mm/an
PET
1 583mm
AET
872mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
198cm
Forest
70%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)