HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081426270
Bassin de Nhimbe
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 1 administrative regions : Maravia
Sub-basin area
1 620,7km²
Upstream area
1 620,7km²
Discharge
8,61m³/s
Mean elev.
758m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1614.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tchuma tchato
IUCN VICommunity Conservation Area
1614.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
41 distinct species · 57 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
957mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
170mm/an
PET
1 801mm
AET
787mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
435cm
Forest
61%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)