HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081120760
Bassin · #1081120760
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 4 administrative regions : Buwekula, Kassanda, Kiboga, Mityana
Sub-basin area
1 269,7km²
Upstream area
1 269,7km²
Discharge
4,06m³/s
Mean elev.
1 237m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 598.4 km²47.3% of basin
- 516.7 km²40.9% of basin
- 148.2 km²11.7% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Taala
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
87.38 km² overlap
Luwunga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
84.06 km² overlap
Namwasa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
50.85 km² overlap
Bwezigolo - Gunga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
47.27 km² overlap
Mpinve
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
18.37 km² overlap
Nanfuka
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
16.42 km² overlap
Goyera
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
5.53 km² overlap
Kijwiga
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.60 km² overlap
Kabindo
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
1.83 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Nsinze
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
125 distinct species · 1 845 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,9°C
Annual rain
1 127mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
155mm/an
PET
1 639mm
AET
953mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
404cm
Forest
14%
Crops
13%
Urban
3%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)