HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081426170
Bassin de Capoche
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 : Chifunde, Maravia
Sub-basin area
517,1km²
Upstream area
13 000,4km²
Discharge
83,43m³/s
Mean elev.
460m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Capoche1898 km²
- Bassin · #10814223401212 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 307.6 km²59.7% of basin
- Chifunde207.6 km²40.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tchuma tchato
IUCN VICommunity Conservation Area
481.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 8 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
810mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
169mm/an
PET
1 969mm
AET
684mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
406cm
Forest
4%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)