HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081249930
Bassin · #1081249930
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 : Kigoma Rural, Kigoma Urban, Lake Tanganyika
Sub-basin area
775,4km²
Upstream area
28 143,9km²
Discharge
150,92m³/s
Mean elev.
776m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lukunga1166 km²
- Bassin de Mushara841 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 716.7 km²92.8% of basin
- 30.5 km²4.0% of basin
- 24.8 km²3.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gombe National Park
IUCN IINational Park
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
748 distinct species · 2 702 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 · #1081249930 : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 018mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
132mm/an
PET
1 551mm
AET
861mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
45cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)