HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081405430
Bassin de Rio Mecuburi
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 : Erati, Namapa
Sub-basin area
820,2km²
Upstream area
5 013,9km²
Discharge
55,16m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Mecuburi664 km²
- Bassin · #1081404680330 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NamapaNampula · Mozambique604.2 km²73.9% of basin
- EratiNampula · Mozambique213.0 km²26.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 33 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
966mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
263mm/an
PET
1 771mm
AET
816mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
190cm
Forest
41%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)