Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081389670

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 1 administrative regions : Majune

Pfafstetter: 11762700

Sub-basin area

1 946,3km²

Upstream area

20 484,7km²

Discharge

222,08m³/s

Mean elev.

683m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Lugenda2602 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Niassa

    IUCN VI

    Buffer Zone

    0.58 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

9 distinct species · 29 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

29 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 23
23–22
2–22
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,4°C

Annual rain

1 178mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,29

Runoff

298mm/an

PET

1 651mm

AET

891mm

Mean slope

2,3°

Water table

181cm

Forest

60%

Crops

9%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)