HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081188240
Bassin · #1081188240
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, Sengerema
Sub-basin area
687,4km²
Upstream area
9 282,8km²
Discharge
29,07m³/s
Mean elev.
1 136m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081190940745 km²
- Bassin · #1081190730521 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 645.5 km²94.3% of basin
- 38.9 km²5.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Buhindi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Plantation
21.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 19 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 364mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
139mm/an
PET
1 565mm
AET
1 126mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
11cm
Forest
4%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)