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HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081259860

Bassin · #1081259860

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

620% lakePfafstetter: 13285008

Sub-basin area

774,7km²

Upstream area

774,7km²

Discharge

2,21m³/s

Mean elev.

877m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin · #10812602808 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Kungwe Bay

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    56.13 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

243 distinct species · 513 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

513 obs · 7 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 446
446–445
15–445
7–14
< 7

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,4°C

Annual rain

1 025mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,35

Runoff

76mm/an

PET

1 578mm

AET

863mm

Mean slope

2,9°

Water table

159cm

Forest

33%

Crops

10%

Urban

0%

Protected

7%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)