HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081205600
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 3 administrative regions : Kwimba, Magu, Maswa
Sub-basin area
333km²
Upstream area
333,1km²
Discharge
0,5m³/s
Mean elev.
1 253m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 234.3 km²70.7% of basin
- 97.2 km²29.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Igwata
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
854mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
1 646mm
AET
722mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
95cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)