HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081431560
Bassin de Meluli
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 : Meconta, Mogovolas
Sub-basin area
261,8km²
Upstream area
2 762,9km²
Discharge
24,2m³/s
Mean elev.
240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081428210181 km²
- Bassin · #108142809043 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MogovolasNampula · Mozambique135.3 km²51.9% of basin
- MecontaNampula · Mozambique125.6 km²48.1% of basin
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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 141mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
330mm/an
PET
1 821mm
AET
964mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
220cm
Forest
91%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)