HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081305920
Bassin de Great Ruaha
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
0,6km²
Upstream area
4 111km²
Discharge
9,04m³/s
Mean elev.
1 016m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Great Ruaha613 km²
- Bassin de Great Ruaha373 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruaha National Park
IUCN IINational Park
0.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
699mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
98mm/an
PET
1 729mm
AET
591mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)