HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081193130
Bassin · #1081193130
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, Muleba
Sub-basin area
148,5km²
Upstream area
1 079,7km²
Discharge
5,24m³/s
Mean elev.
1 158m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081195310506 km²
- Bassin · #1081195320425 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 101.3 km²68.5% of basin
- 29.8 km²20.1% of basin
- Lake VictoriaGeita · Tanzania16.8 km²11.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Rubondo Island National Park
IUCN IINational Park
19.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
1 286mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
1 567mm
AET
1 061mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
131cm
Forest
19%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)