HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081138810
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, Gomba, Lwemiyaga, Mawogola
Sub-basin area
49,9km²
Upstream area
5 147,7km²
Discharge
36,36m³/s
Mean elev.
1 214m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Katonga River1007 km²
- Bassin de Katonga River119 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 21.7 km²43.8% of basin
- 20.1 km²40.5% of basin
- 7.7 km²15.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
878mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
251mm/an
PET
1 630mm
AET
743mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
195cm
Forest
11%
Crops
30%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)