HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081363500
Bassin de Rio Lucheringo
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 : Mavago, Namtumbo, Sanga
Sub-basin area
870,6km²
Upstream area
9 288,1km²
Discharge
200,48m³/s
Mean elev.
560m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lucheringo970 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lucheringo514 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 556.4 km²64.2% of basin
- 310.7 km²35.8% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
867.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 38 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 234mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
592mm/an
PET
1 591mm
AET
887mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
114cm
Forest
14%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)