HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081276860
Bassin de Ruvu
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 : Bagamoyo, Kibaha, Kibaha Urban
Sub-basin area
37,9km²
Upstream area
15 470,4km²
Discharge
65,57m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ruvu856 km²
- Bassin de Ruvu475 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 21.3 km²56.4% of basin
- 9.0 km²23.8% of basin
- 7.5 km²19.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruvu North
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 016mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
153mm/an
PET
1 712mm
AET
859mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
123cm
Forest
46%
Crops
9%
Urban
19%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)