HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081379830
Bassin de Luatize
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 : Mavago
Sub-basin area
288,7km²
Upstream area
288,7km²
Discharge
5,76m³/s
Mean elev.
995m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 287.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VIBuffer Zone
283.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
1 344mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
630mm/an
PET
1 519mm
AET
908mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
248cm
Forest
98%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)