HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081167990
Bassin · #1081167990
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 4 administrative regions : Bura, Galole, Kitui East, Mwingi Central
Sub-basin area
540,9km²
Upstream area
2 002,2km²
Discharge
4,32m³/s
Mean elev.
342m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081169010846 km²
- Bassin · #1081168840615 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 218.0 km²40.5% of basin
- 214.7 km²39.9% of basin
- 105.6 km²19.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Hirimani
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
161.74 km² overlap
East Ngamba
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
6.68 km² overlap
Ngamba
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
3.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
582mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
53mm/an
PET
1 980mm
AET
490mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
114cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)