HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081269000
Bassin · #1081269000
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 4 administrative regions : Gairo, Kilindi, Kilosa, Kiteto
Sub-basin area
634,3km²
Upstream area
634,5km²
Discharge
1,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 087m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 337.5 km²53.4% of basin
- 174.2 km²27.6% of basin
- 70.0 km²11.1% of basin
- 50.0 km²7.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Talagwe
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
10.73 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
819mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
55mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
692mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
486cm
Forest
16%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)