HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081376670
Bassin · #1081376670
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
Sub-basin area
1 255,6km²
Upstream area
1 255,6km²
Discharge
16,31m³/s
Mean elev.
396m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1250.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VIBuffer Zone
22.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 063mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
410mm/an
PET
1 770mm
AET
880mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
142cm
Forest
18%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)