HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081572110
Bassin de Rio Limpopo
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 : Chicualacuala, Mabalane, Massingir
Sub-basin area
337,9km²
Upstream area
337,9km²
Discharge
0,41m³/s
Mean elev.
159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mabalane188.5 km²55.9% of basin
- 129.2 km²38.3% of basin
- Massingir19.4 km²5.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Limpopo
IUCN IINational Park
337.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
487mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
1 807mm
AET
420mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
111cm
Forest
75%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)