HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081179280
Bassin de Mwania River
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 : Mbooni, Mwala
Sub-basin area
19,2km²
Upstream area
847,4km²
Discharge
3,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 312m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081179030439 km²
- Bassin de Mwania River389 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MbooniMakueni · Kenya11.9 km²62.1% of basin
- 7.2 km²37.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tulimani
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
836mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
133mm/an
PET
1 747mm
AET
707mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
377cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)