Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081162730

Bassin · #1081162730

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 across 2 countries : Lake Victoria

1000% lakePfafstetter: 17297815

Sub-basin area

209,1km²

Upstream area

17 619,1km²

Discharge

11,98m³/s

Mean elev.

1 134m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Lake Victoria
    Lake Victoria · Uganda
    186.9 km²
    89.8% of basin
  • Lake Victoria
    21.3 km²
    10.2% 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.

Densité d'observations

1 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

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°

22,3°C

Annual rain

1 487mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,07

Runoff

234mm/an

PET

1 592mm

AET

1 170mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

1cm

Forest

0%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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