HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081168840
Bassin · #1081168840
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 : Bura, Galole, Mwingi Central
Sub-basin area
615,2km²
Upstream area
615,2km²
Discharge
1,4m³/s
Mean elev.
473m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 575.4 km²94.0% of basin
- 23.0 km²3.8% of basin
- 14.0 km²2.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Hirimani
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
42 distinct species · 69 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
628mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
1 981mm
AET
528mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
63cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)