HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081259210
Bassin · #1081259210
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 : Lake Tanganyika, Uvinza
Sub-basin area
503,6km²
Upstream area
133 507,3km²
Discharge
388,57m³/s
Mean elev.
793m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 011mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
1 573mm
AET
854mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
78cm
Forest
10%
Crops
17%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)