HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081304290
Bassin · #1081304290
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 : Mbarali
Sub-basin area
240,1km²
Upstream area
2 570,1km²
Discharge
5,47m³/s
Mean elev.
1 136m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10813037801361 km²
- Bassin · #1081303670459 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruaha National Park
IUCN IINational Park
171.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 16 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
714mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
1 667mm
AET
603mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
403cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
3%
Protected
78%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)