HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081159540
Bassin · #1081159540
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lake Victoria
Sub-basin area
921,2km²
Upstream area
85 723,9km²
Discharge
413,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081168170289 km²
- Bassin · #108116816068 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake VictoriaLake Victoria · Uganda775.2 km²84.5% of basin
- 75.5 km²8.2% of basin
- 66.4 km²7.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
42 distinct species · 62 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 799mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
313mm/an
PET
1 560mm
AET
1 290mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
1cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)