HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081555170
Bassin · #1081555170
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 : Chigubo
Sub-basin area
597km²
Upstream area
7 021,4km²
Discharge
16,09m³/s
Mean elev.
106m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10815504501055 km²
- Bassin · #1081550460317 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Chigubo595.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Banhine
IUCN IINational Park
332.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 15 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
502mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 816mm
AET
422mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
10cm
Forest
55%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)