Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081366640

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 1 administrative regions : Mecula

Pfafstetter: 11762134

Sub-basin area

734,8km²

Upstream area

734,8km²

Discharge

11,9m³/s

Mean elev.

282m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lugenda36 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Special Reserve

    731.90 km² overlap

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

Species present

75 distinct species · 98 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

98 obs · 7 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 82
82–81
5–81
1–4
< 1

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°

26,1°C

Annual rain

1 089mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,38

Runoff

512mm/an

PET

1 761mm

AET

887mm

Mean slope

1,6°

Water table

114cm

Forest

0%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

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