HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081293940
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 3 administrative regions : Lake Rukwa, Mlele, Sumbawanga Rural
Sub-basin area
318,1km²
Upstream area
318,2km²
Discharge
2,19m³/s
Mean elev.
811m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 276.5 km²87.3% of basin
- 39.9 km²12.6% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Rukwa G.R
IUCN Not ReportedGame Reserve
171.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 20 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
919mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
226mm/an
PET
1 812mm
AET
776mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
12cm
Forest
46%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)