HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081387350
Bassin de Rio Messalo
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, Montepuez
Sub-basin area
807,1km²
Upstream area
4 602,1km²
Discharge
26,27m³/s
Mean elev.
551m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Messalo524 km²
- Bassin de Rio Messalo436 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 652.3 km²81.1% of basin
- 151.8 km²18.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Messalo
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
532.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 090mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
327mm/an
PET
1 736mm
AET
883mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
174cm
Forest
34%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)