HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081404490
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 : Lalaua, Nipepe
Sub-basin area
1 377,7km²
Upstream area
30 717,8km²
Discharge
348,11m³/s
Mean elev.
430m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081408220514 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio6 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nipepe776.2 km²56.5% of basin
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique596.5 km²43.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 7 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 027mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
356mm/an
PET
1 797mm
AET
865mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
120cm
Forest
13%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)