HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081296250
Bassin · #1081296250
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
Sub-basin area
88,4km²
Upstream area
40 882,8km²
Discharge
245,75m³/s
Mean elev.
851m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081295640686 km²
- Bassin · #1081295580249 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 50.0 km²56.9% of basin
- 23.4 km²26.6% of basin
- Lake RukwaSongwe · Tanzania14.6 km²16.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Rukwa G.R
IUCN Not ReportedGame Reserve
22.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
932mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
237mm/an
PET
1 802mm
AET
787mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
148cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)