HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081368550
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
166,1km²
Upstream area
54 863,7km²
Discharge
665,13m³/s
Mean elev.
240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lugenda605 km²
- Bassin de Lugenda57 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 110.4 km²66.7% of basin
- 55.1 km²33.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
165.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 058mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
480mm/an
PET
1 781mm
AET
879mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
124cm
Forest
5%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)