HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081458040
Bassin · #1081458040
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 : Milange, Mocuba, Morrumbala
Sub-basin area
460,2km²
Upstream area
460,2km²
Discharge
6,24m³/s
Mean elev.
372m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Morrumbala457.0 km²99.6% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.4% of basin
- Milange0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zambezi Delta
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
442.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 398mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
428mm/an
PET
1 776mm
AET
1 123mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
214cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)