HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081308200
Bassin · #1081308200
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
655,1km²
Upstream area
655,5km²
Discharge
2,01m³/s
Mean elev.
1 316m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruaha National Park
IUCN IINational Park
652.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
826mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
120mm/an
PET
1 675mm
AET
697mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
295cm
Forest
55%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)