HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081309520
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 2 administrative regions : Mbarali, Wanging'ombe
Sub-basin area
564,5km²
Upstream area
2 528,3km²
Discharge
30,39m³/s
Mean elev.
1 114m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081313740532 km²
- Bassin · #1081313620290 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 549.3 km²97.7% of basin
- 12.9 km²2.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruaha National Park
IUCN IINational Park
127.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 47 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
782mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
174mm/an
PET
1 722mm
AET
658mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
111cm
Forest
3%
Crops
5%
Urban
5%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)