HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081138260
Bassin de Katonga River
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, Kazo, Kyaka, Lwemiyaga
Sub-basin area
717,2km²
Upstream area
3 623,8km²
Discharge
23,65m³/s
Mean elev.
1 266m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10811390701141 km²
- Bassin de Katonga River201 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 265.3 km²37.2% of basin
- 224.8 km²31.5% of basin
- 223.9 km²31.4% of basin
- KazoMbarara · Uganda0.0 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Kazooba
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
50.55 km² overlap
Rwensambya
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.71 km² overlap
Muinaina
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
1.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
945mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
219mm/an
PET
1 627mm
AET
800mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
202cm
Forest
19%
Crops
29%
Urban
2%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)