HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081279130
Bassin de Katuma 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 1 administrative regions : Mlele
Sub-basin area
237,3km²
Upstream area
3 930,4km²
Discharge
15,03m³/s
Mean elev.
969m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Katuma527 km²
- Bassin de Katuma River429 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Katavi National Park
IUCN IINational Park
149.01 km² overlap
Mulele Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
34.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
143 distinct species · 274 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Katuma River : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 17.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 006mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
174mm/an
PET
1 831mm
AET
850mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
83cm
Forest
19%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
78%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)