HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081202140
Bassin de Simiyu
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 : Kwimba, Magu
Sub-basin area
200,4km²
Upstream area
5 142,8km²
Discharge
6,14m³/s
Mean elev.
1 204m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Simiyu903 km²
- Bassin de Simiyu333 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 131.1 km²65.7% of basin
- 68.5 km²34.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sayaka
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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
922mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
60mm/an
PET
1 641mm
AET
780mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
139cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)