Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081306400

Bassin de Kilombero River

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 : Kilolo, Kilombero, Ulanga

Pfafstetter: 11744603

Sub-basin area

581,6km²

Upstream area

3 645,6km²

Discharge

46,73m³/s

Mean elev.

277m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kilombero River495 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Kilombero Valley Floodplain

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    543.20 km² overlap

  • Kilombero GCA

    IUCN Not Reported

    Game controlled area

    453.91 km² overlap

  • Kilombero

    IUCN Not Reported

    Nature Forest Reserve

    10.14 km² overlap

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

Species present

9 distinct species · 9 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

9 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
2–4
2–1
< 2

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°

25,7°C

Annual rain

1 394mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,08

Runoff

472mm/an

PET

1 516mm

AET

912mm

Mean slope

0,6°

Water table

27cm

Forest

47%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

2%

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