HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081390750
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
70,5km²
Upstream area
2 062,9km²
Discharge
8,85m³/s
Mean elev.
625m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Messalo1640 km²
- Bassin de Rio Messalo353 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 70.2 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
37 distinct species · 70 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 107mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
250mm/an
PET
1 692mm
AET
881mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
283cm
Forest
74%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)