Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081366150

Bassin de Rio Messalo

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 : Macomia

Pfafstetter: 11770434

Sub-basin area

267,5km²

Upstream area

267,5km²

Discharge

1,6m³/s

Mean elev.

117m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rio Messalo42 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Quirimbas

    IUCN V

    Buffer Zone

    160.64 km² overlap

  • Quirimbas

    IUCN V

    National Park

    1.86 km² overlap

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

Species present

10 distinct species · 11 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

11 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
8–7
8–7
< 8

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°

25,4°C

Annual rain

1 063mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,38

Runoff

188mm/an

PET

1 710mm

AET

896mm

Mean slope

2,0°

Water table

216cm

Forest

79%

Crops

6%

Urban

1%

Protected

0%

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