HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081303670
Bassin · #1081303670
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 : Iringa Rural, Mbarali, Mufindi
Sub-basin area
458,8km²
Upstream area
458,8km²
Discharge
1,04m³/s
Mean elev.
1 452m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 171.7 km²37.6% of basin
- 147.1 km²32.2% of basin
- 138.0 km²30.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruaha National Park
IUCN IINational Park
16.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
40 distinct species · 78 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
80mm/an
PET
1 566mm
AET
645mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
568cm
Forest
29%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)