HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081299210
Bassin · #1081299210
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
333,2km²
Upstream area
43 615,8km²
Discharge
255,95m³/s
Mean elev.
953m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081297930426 km²
- Bassin · #10812977706 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake RukwaSongwe · Tanzania166.8 km²50.3% of basin
- 150.8 km²45.5% of basin
- 14.2 km²4.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lukwati
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
148.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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
953mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
293mm/an
PET
1 786mm
AET
805mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
289cm
Forest
11%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)