HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081228330
Bassin de Mwatate
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 : Mwatate, Voi
Sub-basin area
130,8km²
Upstream area
1 866km²
Discharge
2,98m³/s
Mean elev.
640m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mwatate416 km²
- Bassin de Mwatate14 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mwatate86.2 km²66.2% of basin
- 44.1 km²33.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tsavo West
IUCN IINational Park
87.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 25 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
704mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
57mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
595mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
264cm
Forest
0%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)