HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081401050
Bassin de Rio Lugenda
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 : Mandimba
Sub-basin area
169,3km²
Upstream area
6 731,7km²
Discharge
74,04m³/s
Mean elev.
659m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lugenda471 km²
- Bassin · #1081402690452 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 168.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 060mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
367mm/an
PET
1 664mm
AET
861mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
127cm
Forest
71%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)