HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081404120
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 : Balama, Lalaua, Nipepe
Sub-basin area
70,2km²
Upstream area
36 155,6km²
Discharge
409,11m³/s
Mean elev.
365m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio1309 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio42 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Balama45.0 km²64.3% of basin
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique24.6 km²35.2% of basin
- Nipepe0.3 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 023mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
335mm/an
PET
1 823mm
AET
863mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
69cm
Forest
11%
Crops
2%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)