HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081380150
Bassin de Lugenda
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 : Marrupa, Mecula
Sub-basin area
82,1km²
Upstream area
33 173,2km²
Discharge
404,52m³/s
Mean elev.
407m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lugenda553 km²
- Bassin · #1081379880276 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 41.7 km²51.0% of basin
- 40.1 km²49.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
81.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 8 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
423mm/an
PET
1 697mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
97cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)