HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081490860
Bassin de Txatola
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 : Barue, Macossa
Sub-basin area
1 134,1km²
Upstream area
1 134,1km²
Discharge
27,24m³/s
Mean elev.
526m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BarueManica · Mozambique615.8 km²54.5% of basin
- MacossaManica · Mozambique514.7 km²45.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
36 distinct species · 58 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 507mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
732mm/an
PET
1 724mm
AET
1 117mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
163cm
Forest
92%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)