HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081550460
Bassin · #1081550460
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 : Chigubo, Massangena
Sub-basin area
316,5km²
Upstream area
5 368,8km²
Discharge
13,03m³/s
Mean elev.
107m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081548700707 km²
- Bassin · #10815486809 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Chigubo315.1 km²99.8% of basin
- Massangena0.5 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zinave
IUCN IINational Park
0.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 25 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
540mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 808mm
AET
454mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
26cm
Forest
65%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)