HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081532070
Bassin · #1081532070
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 : Machaze
Sub-basin area
744,5km²
Upstream area
744,5km²
Discharge
5,47m³/s
Mean elev.
250m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MachazeManica · Mozambique742.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº5
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
52.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 14 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
835mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
239mm/an
PET
1 682mm
AET
705mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
220cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)