HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081299640
Bassin de Rufiji
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 1 administrative regions : Rufiji
Sub-basin area
161,3km²
Upstream area
163 246,3km²
Discharge
866,07m³/s
Mean elev.
46m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10812984402157 km²
- Bassin de Rufiji368 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Kipo
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
11.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
123 distinct species · 342 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rufiji : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 10 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,4°C
Annual rain
938mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
123mm/an
PET
1 533mm
AET
793mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
20cm
Forest
52%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)