HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081546500
Bassin de Changane River
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 3 administrative regions : Chigubo, Mabote, Massangena
Sub-basin area
306,8km²
Upstream area
2 380,7km²
Discharge
5,06m³/s
Mean elev.
137m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10815451601354 km²
- Bassin · #1081545170720 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mabote217.0 km²70.9% of basin
- Chigubo56.9 km²18.6% of basin
- Massangena32.1 km²10.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zinave
IUCN IINational Park
95.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
594mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
46mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
501mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
37cm
Forest
67%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)