HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081216920
Bassin · #1081216920
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 4 administrative regions : Kahama, Mbogwe, Nyang'hwale, Shinyanga Rural
Sub-basin area
660,6km²
Upstream area
661km²
Discharge
0,84m³/s
Mean elev.
1 203m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 576.5 km²87.7% of basin
- 46.0 km²7.0% of basin
- Nyang'hwaleGeita · Tanzania30.3 km²4.6% of basin
- 4.9 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ngogwa Busangi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
11.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
902mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
51mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
762mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
163cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)