HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081265500
Bassin de Masena River
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 : Chamwino, Kiteto, Kongwa
Sub-basin area
930,9km²
Upstream area
931km²
Discharge
1,91m³/s
Mean elev.
1 304m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 595.7 km²64.3% of basin
- 318.9 km²34.4% of basin
- 12.3 km²1.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 27 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
743mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
628mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
512cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)