HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081488300
Bassin de Muazi
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 : Gorongosa, Macossa
Sub-basin area
821,3km²
Upstream area
1 162,4km²
Discharge
27,31m³/s
Mean elev.
528m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081480130227 km²
- Bassin de Muazi114 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MacossaManica · Mozambique798.2 km²97.5% of basin
- 20.5 km²2.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº13
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
377.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 470mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
727mm/an
PET
1 718mm
AET
1 109mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
164cm
Forest
75%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
47%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)