HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081518660
Bassin de Rio Búzi
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 : Machaze, Mossurize
Sub-basin area
527,4km²
Upstream area
6 708km²
Discharge
54,16m³/s
Mean elev.
197m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Búzi907 km²
- Bassin de Rio Búzi230 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MossurizeManica · Mozambique350.4 km²66.6% of basin
- MachazeManica · Mozambique175.5 km²33.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 21 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
821mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
291mm/an
PET
1 744mm
AET
690mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
190cm
Forest
100%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)