HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081454030
Bassin de Rio Muira
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 : Tambara
Sub-basin area
35,9km²
Upstream area
3 620,4km²
Discharge
17,69m³/s
Mean elev.
125m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Muira656 km²
- Bassin de Rio Muira643 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- TambaraManica · Mozambique35.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº7
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
32.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 25 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
684mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
102mm/an
PET
1 892mm
AET
576mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
84cm
Forest
62%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
91%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)