HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081385110
Bassin · #1081385110
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 : Lichinga, Sanga
Sub-basin area
434,1km²
Upstream area
434,1km²
Discharge
7,27m³/s
Mean elev.
1 144m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 368.0 km²85.1% of basin
- 64.5 km²14.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
180.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 22 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
1 275mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
520mm/an
PET
1 490mm
AET
902mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
185cm
Forest
1%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)