HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081223240
Bassin de Kikuletwa
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 : Hai, Moshi Rural, Mwanga, Simanjiro
Sub-basin area
369,5km²
Upstream area
6 628,1km²
Discharge
47,23m³/s
Mean elev.
755m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kikafu678 km²
- Bassin de Kikuletwa281 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 278.0 km²75.6% of basin
- 87.8 km²23.9% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
504 distinct species · 7 436 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kikuletwa : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,5°C
Annual rain
589mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
221mm/an
PET
1 793mm
AET
495mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
84cm
Forest
45%
Crops
11%
Urban
15%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)