HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081390930
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, Maúa
Sub-basin area
352,5km²
Upstream area
352,5km²
Discharge
2,05m³/s
Mean elev.
745m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 236.3 km²67.3% of basin
- 114.9 km²32.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nungo
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
112.79 km² overlap
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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 142mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
238mm/an
PET
1 621mm
AET
870mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
242cm
Forest
68%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)