HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081512110
Bassin de Nata
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 : Bulilima, Tsholotsho
Sub-basin area
185,8km²
Upstream area
1 917,7km²
Discharge
3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 138m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nata328 km²
- Bassin de Nata283 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 137.3 km²74.1% of basin
- 48.0 km²25.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 28 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
572mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
26mm/an
PET
1 728mm
AET
482mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
168cm
Forest
3%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)