HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081398370
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 3 administrative regions : Chiúre, Namapa, Namuno
Sub-basin area
1 066,5km²
Upstream area
54 281,1km²
Discharge
582,72m³/s
Mean elev.
324m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio2411 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio1421 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NamapaNampula · Mozambique849.7 km²80.0% of basin
- 207.7 km²19.6% of basin
- 5.2 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
46 distinct species · 88 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 044mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
325mm/an
PET
1 832mm
AET
882mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
207cm
Forest
7%
Crops
1%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)