Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081368560

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

Pfafstetter: 11762136

Sub-basin area

814,4km²

Upstream area

814,5km²

Discharge

11,14m³/s

Mean elev.

337m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lugenda252 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Special Reserve

    650.27 km² overlap

  • Nicage

    IUCN VI

    Hunting Reserve

    161.04 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.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 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°

25,6°C

Annual rain

1 064mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,40

Runoff

437mm/an

PET

1 763mm

AET

880mm

Mean slope

2,4°

Water table

166cm

Forest

2%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

87%

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