HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081373570
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
259,5km²
Upstream area
259,5km²
Discharge
4,42m³/s
Mean elev.
718m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 258.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
258.53 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 279mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
536mm/an
PET
1 592mm
AET
905mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
197cm
Forest
89%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)