HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081425560
Bassin · #1081425560
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 : Maravia, Zumbu
Sub-basin area
609,8km²
Upstream area
2 459,1km²
Discharge
12,98m³/s
Mean elev.
850m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081420830277 km²
- Bassin · #1081420820135 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 374.8 km²61.7% of basin
- 232.9 km²38.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tchuma tchato
IUCN VICommunity Conservation Area
607.62 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 014mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
834mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
283cm
Forest
73%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)