HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081401360
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 : Mecuburi, Namuno
Sub-basin area
890,3km²
Upstream area
47 717,4km²
Discharge
532,02m³/s
Mean elev.
338m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio909 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio684 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 522.5 km²58.9% of basin
- MecuburiNampula · Mozambique364.5 km²41.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 9 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 040mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
329mm/an
PET
1 849mm
AET
878mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
100cm
Forest
12%
Crops
2%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)