HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081430830
Bassin de Rio Luia
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 4 administrative regions : Cahora Bassa, Chifunde, Chiuta, Maravia
Sub-basin area
432,2km²
Upstream area
29 230,2km²
Discharge
193,38m³/s
Mean elev.
421m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Luia2538 km²
- Bassin de Rio Luia32 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 339.3 km²78.8% of basin
- 91.2 km²21.2% of basin
- Chifunde0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tchuma tchato
IUCN VICommunity Conservation Area
103.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
801mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
148mm/an
PET
1 968mm
AET
677mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
483cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)