HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081186570
Bassin · #1081186570
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, Ukerewe
Sub-basin area
462,9km²
Upstream area
51 458,8km²
Discharge
55,56m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kanyerere1286 km²
- Bassin · #10811921004 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 460.6 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 12 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 395mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
145mm/an
PET
1 566mm
AET
1 147mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)