HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081426690
Bassin · #1081426690
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
82,4km²
Upstream area
2 789,3km²
Discharge
14,47m³/s
Mean elev.
763m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081425560610 km²
- Bassin · #1081425570248 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 49.8 km²60.6% of basin
- 32.4 km²39.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tchuma tchato
IUCN VICommunity Conservation Area
82.15 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
934mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
132mm/an
PET
1 741mm
AET
787mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
479cm
Forest
47%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)