HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081400130
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 : Mecuburi, Namapa, Namuno
Sub-basin area
1 420,7km²
Upstream area
50 803,3km²
Discharge
556,32m³/s
Mean elev.
346m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio1666 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio890 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MecuburiNampula · Mozambique628.8 km²44.4% of basin
- 524.3 km²37.0% of basin
- NamapaNampula · Mozambique262.4 km²18.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mecuburi
IUCN IVForest Reserve
316.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 20 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
1 050mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
334mm/an
PET
1 840mm
AET
886mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
144cm
Forest
22%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)