HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081381500
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 3 administrative regions : Majune, Marrupa, Mavago
Sub-basin area
17,5km²
Upstream area
31 993km²
Discharge
390,08m³/s
Mean elev.
428m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lugenda2602 km²
- Bassin de Luatize281 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7.5 km²43.3% of basin
- 5.1 km²29.5% of basin
- 4.7 km²27.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Niassa
IUCN VISpecial Reserve
17.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 197mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
369mm/an
PET
1 685mm
AET
904mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
77cm
Forest
78%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)