HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081448890
Bassin de Rio Metangua
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 1 administrative regions : Changara
Sub-basin area
613,1km²
Upstream area
10 400,4km²
Discharge
54,07m³/s
Mean elev.
358m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Metangua4614 km²
- Bassin de Rio Metangua1654 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 611.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 8 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
619mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
122mm/an
PET
1 890mm
AET
521mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
370cm
Forest
51%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)