HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081404240
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 4 administrative regions : Balama, Lalaua, Marrupa, Nipepe
Sub-basin area
1 308,9km²
Upstream area
1 308,9km²
Discharge
14,36m³/s
Mean elev.
485m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Balama717.2 km²55.0% of basin
- Nipepe586.7 km²45.0% of basin
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique0.1 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nungo
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
452.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 040mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
345mm/an
PET
1 779mm
AET
869mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
131cm
Forest
55%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)