HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081537900
Bassin de Rio Vumaóze
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
1 407,8km²
Upstream area
1 408km²
Discharge
5,86m³/s
Mean elev.
260m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MachazeManica · Mozambique1404.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nº4
IUCN VIHunting Reserve
145.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 19 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
678mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
131mm/an
PET
1 765mm
AET
571mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
241cm
Forest
73%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)