HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081285250
Bassin de Great Ruaha
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 : Chamwino, Mpwapwa
Sub-basin area
124,9km²
Upstream area
3 673,7km²
Discharge
3,67m³/s
Mean elev.
724m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10812830701862 km²
- Bassin · #1081283060178 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 123.4 km²99.2% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.8% of basin
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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
516mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 735mm
AET
435mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
242cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)