HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081404500
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, Namuno
Sub-basin area
1 443km²
Upstream area
1 443,1km²
Discharge
15,56m³/s
Mean elev.
468m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Balama1230.8 km²85.6% of basin
- 206.8 km²14.4% of basin
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 51 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 034mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
339mm/an
PET
1 789mm
AET
869mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
115cm
Forest
72%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)