HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081143610
Bassin · #1081143610
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
614,4km²
Upstream area
192 038km²
Discharge
988,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081147440572 km²
- Bassin · #1081147330223 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake VictoriaLake Victoria · Uganda605.0 km²98.9% of basin
- Buvuma IslandsMukono · Uganda6.7 km²1.1% of basin
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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 479mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
257mm/an
PET
1 636mm
AET
1 199mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
2cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)