HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081170370
Bassin · #1081170370
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 : Lake Victoria
Sub-basin area
1 107,9km²
Upstream area
3 669,9km²
Discharge
57,78m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081174180428 km²
- Bassin · #1081174270161 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1088.3 km²98.7% of basin
- 14.6 km²1.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
1 906mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
350mm/an
PET
1 545mm
AET
1 313mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
1cm
Forest
0%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)