HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081200660
Bassin · #1081200660
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 1 administrative regions : Ngorongoro
Sub-basin area
29,3km²
Upstream area
1 999,4km²
Discharge
3,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 050m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081199780602 km²
- Bassin · #108120002034 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NgorongoroArusha · Tanzania29.2 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Loliondo GCA
IUCN Not ReportedGame controlled area
23.06 km² overlap
Lake Natron GCA
IUCN Not ReportedGame controlled area
6.14 km² overlap
Lake Natron Basin
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 18 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
498mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 744mm
AET
419mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
199cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)