Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081139540

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 2 administrative regions : Buwekula, Lwemiyaga

Pfafstetter: 17297493

Sub-basin area

119,4km²

Upstream area

4 091,1km²

Discharge

26,99m³/s

Mean elev.

1 232m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Katonga River50 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Kazooba

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    22.46 km² overlap

  • Ntusi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    0.16 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

11 distinct species · 35 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

35 obs · 9 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 9
9–8
6–8
3–5
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,6°C

Annual rain

869mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,47

Runoff

243mm/an

PET

1 632mm

AET

735mm

Mean slope

4,2°

Water table

247cm

Forest

25%

Crops

23%

Urban

1%

Protected

19%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)