HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081366740
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 2 administrative regions : Mecula, Montepuez
Sub-basin area
251,5km²
Upstream area
55 930km²
Discharge
679,28m³/s
Mean elev.
228m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lugenda814 km²
- Bassin de Lugenda166 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 144.1 km²57.5% of basin
- 106.4 km²42.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
250.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
75 distinct species · 79 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Lugenda : 8 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 16.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 046mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
471mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
873mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
107cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)