HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081463210
Bassin de Shire
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 : Morrumbala, Mutarara
Sub-basin area
826,1km²
Upstream area
826,1km²
Discharge
7,16m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Morrumbala823.0 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zambezi Delta
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
18.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 11 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
951mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
274mm/an
PET
1 821mm
AET
804mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
209cm
Forest
100%
Crops
14%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)