Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081452310

Bassin de Rio Melela

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 3 administrative regions : Alto Molocue, Gile, Pebane

Pfafstetter: 11795046

Sub-basin area

2 197,7km²

Upstream area

2 198km²

Discharge

27,91m³/s

Mean elev.

256m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rio Melela884 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Gilé

    IUCN II

    National Park

    341.31 km² overlap

  • Gilé

    IUCN VI

    Buffer Zone

    286.20 km² overlap

  • Mulela

    IUCN VI

    Hunting Reserve

    202.41 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

14 distinct species · 19 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

19 obs · 11 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
3–4
2–2
1–1
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

24,6°C

Annual rain

1 329mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,22

Runoff

394mm/an

PET

1 696mm

AET

1 045mm

Mean slope

2,5°

Water table

178cm

Forest

97%

Crops

9%

Urban

0%

Protected

34%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)