HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081083650
Bassin de Maika
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 : Rungu, Wamba, Watsa
Sub-basin area
1 565,1km²
Upstream area
1 565,1km²
Discharge
20,71m³/s
Mean elev.
799m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1064.8 km²68.3% of basin
- 455.5 km²29.2% of basin
- 37.9 km²2.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Maika-Penge
IUCN VIHunting Area
399.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
42 distinct species · 49 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
2 007mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
432mm/an
PET
1 740mm
AET
1 493mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
69cm
Forest
70%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)