HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081378920
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 4 administrative regions : Ancuabe, Meluco, Pemba, Quissanga
Sub-basin area
854,5km²
Upstream area
7 849,9km²
Discharge
59,49m³/s
Mean elev.
150m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Montepuez897 km²
- Bassin de Rio Montepuez216 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 481.1 km²56.5% of basin
- Ancuabe196.3 km²23.1% of basin
- Meluco123.2 km²14.5% of basin
- 50.7 km²6.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
40 distinct species · 65 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 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 Montepuez : 8 espèces reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 21.4%, 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 021mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 740mm
AET
862mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
204cm
Forest
75%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)