HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081450960
Bassin de Zambeze
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 : Guro, Moatize
Sub-basin area
363,5km²
Upstream area
1 180 364,5km²
Discharge
3 095,66m³/s
Mean elev.
189m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambeze174 km²
- Bassin de Zambeze115 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GuroManica · Mozambique197.4 km²54.5% of basin
- Moatize164.9 km²45.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
656mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
110mm/an
PET
1 868mm
AET
553mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
203cm
Forest
3%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)