HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081420850
Bassin de Rio Lurio
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
384,4km²
Upstream area
2 600,6km²
Discharge
40,63m³/s
Mean elev.
814m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Neace660 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lurio66 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 264.5 km²69.1% of basin
- 98.9 km²25.8% of basin
- MalemaNampula · Mozambique19.6 km²5.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 20 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 175mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
430mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
940mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
373cm
Forest
51%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)