HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081142320
Bassin · #1081142320
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 : Buvuma Islands, Lake Victoria
Sub-basin area
41,8km²
Upstream area
220 196,7km²
Discharge
1 249,02m³/s
Mean elev.
1 143m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081143610614 km²
- Bassin · #1081143550163 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake VictoriaLake Victoria · Uganda35.1 km²84.4% of basin
- Buvuma IslandsMukono · Uganda6.5 km²15.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 12 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 549mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
308mm/an
PET
1 640mm
AET
1 246mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
58cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)