HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081395270
Bassin de Rio Lúrio
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 : Chiúre, Namapa
Sub-basin area
292,8km²
Upstream area
57 824,2km²
Discharge
615,52m³/s
Mean elev.
277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio1179 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio786 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NamapaNampula · Mozambique240.7 km²82.5% of basin
- 51.0 km²17.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 26 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
971mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
227mm/an
PET
1 764mm
AET
821mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
256cm
Forest
50%
Crops
2%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)