HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081175750
Bassin · #1081175750
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 : Lake Victoria
Sub-basin area
537,8km²
Upstream area
5 053km²
Discharge
30,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10811817301014 km²
- Bassin · #10811817402 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 358.2 km²66.9% of basin
- 151.3 km²28.3% of basin
- 25.8 km²4.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 659mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
173mm/an
PET
1 553mm
AET
1 240mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
2cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)