HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081408930
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 3 administrative regions : Malema, Maúa, Metarica
Sub-basin area
130,2km²
Upstream area
3 540,7km²
Discharge
31,18m³/s
Mean elev.
485m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081407410743 km²
- Bassin · #1081407500594 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Metarica67.6 km²52.1% of basin
- 62.1 km²47.9% of basin
- MalemaNampula · Mozambique0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nacumua
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
120.87 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 007mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
368mm/an
PET
1 796mm
AET
849mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
154cm
Forest
1%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)