Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081284540

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 2 administrative regions : Kisarawe, Morogoro Rural

Pfafstetter: 11738050

Sub-basin area

1 705,4km²

Upstream area

7 847,3km²

Discharge

56,94m³/s

Mean elev.

121m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Ruvu2247 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

5 intersecting protected areas

  • Mkulazi

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    346.38 km² overlap

  • Ukutu WMA

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wildlife Management Area

    206.80 km² overlap

  • Nyerere National Park

    IUCN Not Reported

    National Park

    29.00 km² overlap

  • Selous Game Reserve

    IUCN Not Applicable

    World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)

    26.94 km² overlap

  • Selous G.R

    IUCN IV

    Game Reserve

    25.68 km² overlap

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

Species present

18 distinct species · 55 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

55 obs · 12 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 21
11–20
4–10
2–3
< 2

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°

26,5°C

Annual rain

1 095mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,34

Runoff

188mm/an

PET

1 661mm

AET

921mm

Mean slope

0,9°

Water table

99cm

Forest

47%

Crops

7%

Urban

0%

Protected

33%

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