HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081379870
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 2 administrative regions : Mavago, Muembe
Sub-basin area
594,3km²
Upstream area
594,3km²
Discharge
13,41m³/s
Mean elev.
1 084m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Muembe496.1 km²83.8% of basin
- 95.9 km²16.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VIBuffer Zone
60.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
1 348mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
686mm/an
PET
1 501mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
306cm
Forest
99%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)