HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081370500
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
56,7km²
Upstream area
54 092,9km²
Discharge
655,12m³/s
Mean elev.
239m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lugenda594 km²
- Bassin · #1081370740267 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 45.1 km²79.8% of basin
- 11.4 km²20.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
56.46 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 068mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
499mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
883mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
133cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)