Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081378730

Bassin de Rio Montepuez

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 : Macomia, Meluco, Quissanga

Pfafstetter: 11770620

Sub-basin area

1 904km²

Upstream area

1 904,1km²

Discharge

11,08m³/s

Mean elev.

229m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rio Montepuez550 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Quirimbas

    IUCN V

    National Park

    736.66 km² overlap

  • Quirimbas

    IUCN V

    Buffer Zone

    664.87 km² overlap

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

Species present

36 distinct species · 52 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

52 obs · 12 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 20
8–19
6–7
2–5
< 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°

25,5°C

Annual rain

1 084mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,38

Runoff

211mm/an

PET

1 746mm

AET

903mm

Mean slope

1,9°

Water table

199cm

Forest

79%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

40%

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