Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081301180

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

5% lakePfafstetter: 11741007

Sub-basin area

387,7km²

Upstream area

172 495,9km²

Discharge

903,43m³/s

Mean elev.

132m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Rufiji1 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Katundu

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    22.98 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

31 distinct species · 48 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

48 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 27
27–26
27–26
27–26
< 27

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

25,6°C

Annual rain

1 010mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,32

Runoff

103mm/an

PET

1 480mm

AET

842mm

Mean slope

1,3°

Water table

104cm

Forest

88%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

6%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)