HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081416550
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 : Cuamba, Gurue, Malema
Sub-basin area
354km²
Upstream area
3 322,9km²
Discharge
47,5m³/s
Mean elev.
709m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Lurio384 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lurio368 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MalemaNampula · Mozambique175.5 km²49.8% of basin
- 167.5 km²47.5% of basin
- 9.7 km²2.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 28 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
1 017mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
375mm/an
PET
1 768mm
AET
838mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
266cm
Forest
60%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)