Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081377300

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 3 administrative regions : Marrupa, Mavago, Mecula

Pfafstetter: 11762302

Sub-basin area

1 737,7km²

Upstream area

1 738km²

Discharge

23,93m³/s

Mean elev.

498m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lugenda918 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Special Reserve

    1730.97 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

11 distinct species · 14 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

14 obs · 3 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 11
11–10
11–10
2–10
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

25,1°C

Annual rain

1 238mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,26

Runoff

433mm/an

PET

1 668mm

AET

917mm

Mean slope

2,7°

Water table

182cm

Forest

31%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)