HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081167980
Bassin · #1081167980
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, Rorya
Sub-basin area
650,5km²
Upstream area
650,5km²
Discharge
3,97m³/s
Mean elev.
1 161m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 417.4 km²64.5% of basin
- 206.7 km²31.9% of basin
- Lake VictoriaLake Victoria · Uganda23.4 km²3.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,7°C
Annual rain
992mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
192mm/an
PET
1 699mm
AET
839mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
62cm
Forest
4%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)