HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081406770
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 4 administrative regions : Lalaua, Malema, Maúa, Nipepe
Sub-basin area
458,6km²
Upstream area
26 545km²
Discharge
295,56m³/s
Mean elev.
467m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio2748 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio223 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nipepe310.4 km²67.9% of basin
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique88.5 km²19.4% of basin
- MalemaNampula · Mozambique57.6 km²12.6% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 5 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 019mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
374mm/an
PET
1 788mm
AET
857mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
115cm
Forest
48%
Crops
10%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)