HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081452100
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 : Moatize, Tambara
Sub-basin area
55,8km²
Upstream area
1 182 143,8km²
Discharge
3 101,39m³/s
Mean elev.
248m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zambeze529 km²
- Bassin de Zambeze19 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Moatize29.0 km²52.2% of basin
- TambaraManica · Mozambique26.6 km²47.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
685mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
107mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
579mm
Mean slope
7,9°
Water table
609cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)