HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081287040
Bassin de Kavuu 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 2 administrative regions : Mlele, Nkasi
Sub-basin area
744,4km²
Upstream area
744,7km²
Discharge
5,04m³/s
Mean elev.
1 094m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 589.7 km²79.6% of basin
- 151.5 km²20.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Katavi National Park
IUCN IINational Park
2.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 13 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
934mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
1 840mm
AET
789mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
215cm
Forest
33%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)