HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081244730
Bassin · #1081244730
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 3 administrative regions : Igunga, Ikungi, Uyui
Sub-basin area
534,5km²
Upstream area
15 833,6km²
Discharge
52,63m³/s
Mean elev.
1 139m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10812475701321 km²
- Bassin · #108124752090 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 454.2 km²85.4% of basin
- 45.7 km²8.6% of basin
- IgungaTabora · Tanzania32.2 km²6.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Uyui - Kigwa
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.24 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
779mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
113mm/an
PET
1 743mm
AET
658mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
252cm
Forest
1%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)