HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081370490
Bassin de Lussanhando
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 : Mavago
Sub-basin area
289,5km²
Upstream area
289,5km²
Discharge
5,14m³/s
Mean elev.
648m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 288.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
288.39 km² overlap
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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 261mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
560mm/an
PET
1 600mm
AET
900mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
233cm
Forest
76%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)