HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081460210
Bassin de Rio Mupa
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Barue, Changara, Guro, Mudzi
Sub-basin area
1 166,5km²
Upstream area
14 180,6km²
Discharge
139,73m³/s
Mean elev.
642m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081464110795 km²
- Bassin de Rwenya513 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GuroManica · Mozambique574.8 km²49.4% of basin
- BarueManica · Mozambique309.0 km²26.6% of basin
- 242.6 km²20.9% of basin
- 36.2 km²3.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº9
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
40.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 13 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
762mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
205mm/an
PET
1 735mm
AET
643mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
338cm
Forest
67%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)