HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081638890
Bassin de Mzimvubu
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 : Alfred Nzo
Sub-basin area
58,4km²
Upstream area
1 834,7km²
Discharge
14,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 452m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081638710502 km²
- Bassin de Mzimvubu140 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 58.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 60 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°
14,7°C
Annual rain
774mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 375mm
AET
656mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
93cm
Forest
9%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)