HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081452370
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 5 administrative regions : Alto Molocue, Gile, Ile, Maganja da Costa, Pebane
Sub-basin area
1 487,5km²
Upstream area
2 744,4km²
Discharge
50,93m³/s
Mean elev.
272m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Melela691 km²
- Bassin de Rio Melela567 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ile904.1 km²61.0% of basin
- Pebane218.7 km²14.8% of basin
- 217.3 km²14.7% of basin
- Gile141.8 km²9.6% of basin
- Maganja da Costa0.6 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 12 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 369mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
517mm/an
PET
1 703mm
AET
1 064mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
155cm
Forest
93%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)