HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081378240
Bassin de Rio Messalo
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
559,1km²
Upstream area
10 427,7km²
Discharge
89,36m³/s
Mean elev.
355m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Messalo542 km²
- Bassin de Rio Messalo157 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 557.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quirimbas
IUCN VBuffer Zone
109.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 13 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 2 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio Messalo : 2 espèces reliées par 1 interaction GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 100.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 034mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
350mm/an
PET
1 781mm
AET
869mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
181cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)