HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081407900
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 : Lalaua, Nipepe
Sub-basin area
71,6km²
Upstream area
27 133,3km²
Discharge
302,61m³/s
Mean elev.
432m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio517 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lúrio459 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nipepe41.5 km²58.3% of basin
- LalauaNampula · Mozambique29.8 km²41.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nipepe
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 018mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
372mm/an
PET
1 797mm
AET
859mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
78cm
Forest
6%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)