HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081404660
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 : Balama, Lalaua
Sub-basin area
58,4km²
Upstream area
36 575,5km²
Discharge
414m³/s
Mean elev.
352m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio362 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio70 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Balama34.8 km²59.9% of basin
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique23.3 km²40.1% 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 024mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
333mm/an
PET
1 829mm
AET
864mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
66cm
Forest
26%
Crops
2%
Urban
17%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)