HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081294490
Bassin de Leiche 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 4 administrative regions : Lake Rukwa, Nkasi, Sumbawanga Rural, Sumbawanga Urban
Sub-basin area
1 296,1km²
Upstream area
1 296,2km²
Discharge
12,27m³/s
Mean elev.
1 799m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 794.0 km²61.5% of basin
- 280.1 km²21.7% of basin
- 198.4 km²15.4% of basin
- 18.2 km²1.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lyambo Hill
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
61.14 km² overlap
Muva/Sumbawanga Plantation
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
1.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
977 distinct species · 4 983 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
949mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
310mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
802mm
Mean slope
5,2°
Water table
356cm
Forest
11%
Crops
2%
Urban
4%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)