HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081407510
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, Metarica
Sub-basin area
222,5km²
Upstream area
23 338,1km²
Discharge
271,24m³/s
Mean elev.
486m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio893 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio130 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MalemaNampula · Mozambique148.1 km²66.8% of basin
- 73.1 km²33.0% of basin
- Metarica0.3 km²0.1% of basin
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique0.2 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nacumua
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
64.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 15 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 004mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
374mm/an
PET
1 795mm
AET
847mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
111cm
Forest
25%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)