HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081523470
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 1 administrative regions : Mossurize
Sub-basin area
176,8km²
Upstream area
4 099,5km²
Discharge
30,13m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Mossurize2471 km²
- Bassin de Rio Búzi1451 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MossurizeManica · Mozambique176.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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
794mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 703mm
AET
668mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
488cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)