HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081308100
Bassin · #1081308100
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
259,7km²
Upstream area
2 852km²
Discharge
12,95m³/s
Mean elev.
1 068m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10813132901021 km²
- Bassin · #1081313300238 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruaha National Park
IUCN IINational Park
90.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
708mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
135mm/an
PET
1 734mm
AET
598mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
57cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)