HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081428300
Bassin de Rio Ligonha
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 : Alto Molocue, Gile, Ribaue
Sub-basin area
742km²
Upstream area
2 798,1km²
Discharge
26,87m³/s
Mean elev.
571m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Ligonha1476 km²
- Bassin de Rio Ligonha580 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Gile443.3 km²60.0% of basin
- RibaueNampula · Mozambique294.2 km²39.8% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
1 225mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
272mm/an
PET
1 717mm
AET
972mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
214cm
Forest
100%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)