HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081150840
Bassin · #1081150840
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
162,4km²
Upstream area
169 976,6km²
Discharge
830,01m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081154350971 km²
- Bassin · #1081154460637 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake VictoriaLake Victoria · Uganda161.6 km²100.0% of basin
- Buvuma IslandsMukono · Uganda0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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 658mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
339mm/an
PET
1 589mm
AET
1 263mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)