HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081455340
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 2 administrative regions : Guro, Tambara
Sub-basin area
655,7km²
Upstream area
2 941,8km²
Discharge
15,22m³/s
Mean elev.
312m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Muira157 km²
- Bassin de Rio Muira70 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- TambaraManica · Mozambique634.3 km²97.1% of basin
- GuroManica · Mozambique19.2 km²2.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº7
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
353.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 29 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
705mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
113mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
595mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
330cm
Forest
16%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)