HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081550960
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 2 administrative regions : Chigubo, Massangena
Sub-basin area
509,8km²
Upstream area
510km²
Discharge
1,27m³/s
Mean elev.
116m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Chigubo452.6 km²89.0% of basin
- Massangena55.8 km²11.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zinave
IUCN IINational Park
54.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 11 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
564mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
1 793mm
AET
475mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
40cm
Forest
70%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)