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
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)