HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081236310
Bassin · #1081236310
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, Kaliua, Nzega, Uyui
Sub-basin area
405,6km²
Upstream area
1 395,2km²
Discharge
0,96m³/s
Mean elev.
1 199m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081234860670 km²
- Bassin · #1081234960320 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 191.4 km²47.4% of basin
- 172.0 km²42.6% of basin
- 39.9 km²9.9% of basin
- KaliuaTabora · Tanzania0.7 km²0.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Igombe River
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
20.94 km² overlap
Karitu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
3.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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
881mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
1 743mm
AET
745mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
281cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)