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HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081227380

Bassin · #1081227380

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 : Bukombe

Pfafstetter: 13288803

Sub-basin area

586,3km²

Upstream area

5 935km²

Discharge

12,64m³/s

Mean elev.

1 156m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin · #1081236390858 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Bukombe
    Geita · Tanzania
    583.7 km²
    100.0% of basin

2 intersecting protected areas

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 distinct species · 27 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

27 obs · 7 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 20
20–19
1–19
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,4°C

Annual rain

932mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,45

Runoff

38mm/an

PET

1 693mm

AET

788mm

Mean slope

1,4°

Water table

257cm

Forest

90%

Crops

23%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)