HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081404510
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
134,7km²
Upstream area
38 153,2km²
Discharge
430,97m³/s
Mean elev.
346m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio1443 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio58 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique105.3 km²78.4% of basin
- 28.8 km²21.5% of basin
- Balama0.1 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 028mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
331mm/an
PET
1 832mm
AET
867mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
74cm
Forest
9%
Crops
1%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)