HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081154350
Bassin · #1081154350
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 1 administrative regions : Lake Victoria
Sub-basin area
970,9km²
Upstream area
971km²
Discharge
6,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake VictoriaLake Victoria · Uganda966.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 491mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
216mm/an
PET
1 607mm
AET
1 180mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)