HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081309960
Bassin de Songwe River
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 5 administrative regions : Mbeya Rural, Mbeya Urban, Mbozi, Rungwe, Songwe
Sub-basin area
2 685,8km²
Upstream area
2 686,6km²
Discharge
29,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 585m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,1°C
Annual rain
1 310mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
355mm/an
PET
1 505mm
AET
918mm
Mean slope
6,3°
Water table
326cm
Forest
33%
Crops
6%
Urban
9%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)