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