HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081369910
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 3 administrative regions : Meluco, Mueda, Muidumbe
Sub-basin area
57,6km²
Upstream area
19 885,1km²
Discharge
199,58m³/s
Mean elev.
164m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10813698701866 km²
- Bassin de Rio Messalo469 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Meluco31.0 km²54.0% of basin
- Muidumbe25.8 km²45.0% of basin
- 0.6 km²1.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 058mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
341mm/an
PET
1 759mm
AET
890mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
265cm
Forest
95%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)