Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081370370

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 : Montepuez

Pfafstetter: 11762138

Sub-basin area

604,5km²

Upstream area

604,6km²

Discharge

8,61m³/s

Mean elev.

349m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lugenda166 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Special Reserve

    360.14 km² overlap

  • Nicage

    IUCN VI

    Hunting Reserve

    112.31 km² overlap

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Buffer Zone

    59.48 km² overlap

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

Species present

21 distinct species · 22 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

22 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 18
18–17
18–17
18–17
< 18

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 074mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,39

Runoff

452mm/an

PET

1 768mm

AET

884mm

Mean slope

2,4°

Water table

184cm

Forest

2%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

71%

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