HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081297440
Bassin · #1081297440
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, Songwe
Sub-basin area
187,6km²
Upstream area
42 112,6km²
Discharge
250,26m³/s
Mean elev.
928m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081296730459 km²
- Bassin · #108129653011 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake RukwaSongwe · Tanzania107.1 km²57.4% of basin
- 72.7 km²38.9% of basin
- 6.9 km²3.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lukwati
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
71.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
941mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
243mm/an
PET
1 791mm
AET
796mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
247cm
Forest
9%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)