HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081296260
Bassin · #1081296260
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, Mlele, Songwe
Sub-basin area
572,6km²
Upstream area
572,6km²
Discharge
4,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 318.2 km²55.8% of basin
- 175.9 km²30.9% of basin
- Lake RukwaSongwe · Tanzania72.4 km²12.7% of basin
- 3.6 km²0.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lukwati
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
387.25 km² overlap
Lake Rukwa G.R
IUCN Not ReportedGame Reserve
101.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 9 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
938mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
223mm/an
PET
1 765mm
AET
793mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
385cm
Forest
61%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)