HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081308580
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
196,3km²
Upstream area
3 768,2km²
Discharge
16,25m³/s
Mean elev.
1 035m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081308200655 km²
- Bassin · #1081308280448 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruaha National Park
IUCN IINational Park
195.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 13 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
767mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
124mm/an
PET
1 755mm
AET
648mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
16cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)