HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081373480
Bassin de Chifumage
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 : Alto Zambeze, Cameia, Lucano
Sub-basin area
2 140,4km²
Upstream area
18 893,3km²
Discharge
207,1m³/s
Mean elev.
1 079m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chicaluege496 km²
- Bassin de Chifumage111 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1368.0 km²64.2% of basin
- Alto ZambezeMoxico · Angola762.5 km²35.8% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cameia National Park
IUCN IINational Park
1968.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
1 243mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
322mm/an
PET
1 877mm
AET
1 037mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
1%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)