HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081388780
Bassin de Río Megaruma
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 : Ancuabe, Chiúre, Montepuez
Sub-basin area
433,5km²
Upstream area
3 216,3km²
Discharge
32,91m³/s
Mean elev.
375m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Megaruma382 km²
- Bassin de Río Megaruma152 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ancuabe362.2 km²83.9% of basin
- 63.4 km²14.7% of basin
- 6.1 km²1.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 067mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
280mm/an
PET
1 805mm
AET
899mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
182cm
Forest
40%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)