HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081390020
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 1 administrative regions : Marrupa
Sub-basin area
39,8km²
Upstream area
2 403,7km²
Discharge
10,88m³/s
Mean elev.
576m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Messalo301 km²
- Bassin de Rio Messalo71 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 39.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Messalo
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
19.97 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 094mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
260mm/an
PET
1 727mm
AET
882mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
259cm
Forest
92%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)