HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081417030
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 : Cuamba, Mecanhelas
Sub-basin area
700,3km²
Upstream area
700,6km²
Discharge
7,11m³/s
Mean elev.
653m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 360.8 km²51.7% of basin
- 337.0 km²48.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 16 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 016mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
335mm/an
PET
1 743mm
AET
857mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
107cm
Forest
30%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)