HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081159550
Bassin · #1081159550
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
155km²
Upstream area
18 517,8km²
Discharge
20,53m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081162390291 km²
- Bassin · #10811624903 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake VictoriaLake Victoria · Uganda154.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 681mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
306mm/an
PET
1 576mm
AET
1 251mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)