Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081154460

Bassin · #1081154460

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

1000% lakePfafstetter: 17297790

Sub-basin area

636,5km²

Upstream area

168 843,3km²

Discharge

834,83m³/s

Mean elev.

1 134m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin · #1081150840162 km²

▲ Receives from 3 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Lake Victoria
    Lake Victoria · Uganda
    633.7 km²
    100.0% of basin

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

20 distinct species · 49 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

49 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 41
41–40
4–40
2–3
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

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

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,0°C

Annual rain

1 693mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,07

Runoff

299mm/an

PET

1 579mm

AET

1 263mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

1cm

Forest

0%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)