HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081308280
Bassin · #1081308280
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
448,2km²
Upstream area
2 916,5km²
Discharge
15,37m³/s
Mean elev.
1 237m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081308820388 km²
- Bassin · #1081308990141 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruaha National Park
IUCN IINational Park
446.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 9 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
851mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
141mm/an
PET
1 696mm
AET
719mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
233cm
Forest
33%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)