HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080040370
Bassin · #1080040370
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 : Lake Rukwa
Sub-basin area
35,7km²
Upstream area
79 610km²
Discharge
520,27m³/s
Mean elev.
801m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 4 basins
- Bassin · #10812993202519 km²
- Bassin · #10812993802220 km²
- Bassin · #1081299200725 km²
- Bassin · #1081299210333 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake RukwaSongwe · Tanzania34.8 km²97.9% of basin
- 0.8 km²2.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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
956mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
292mm/an
PET
1 816mm
AET
808mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
1cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)