HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081312720
Bassin · #1081312720
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 3 administrative regions : Makambako Town, Mbarali, Wanging'ombe
Sub-basin area
172,6km²
Upstream area
172,7km²
Discharge
0,89m³/s
Mean elev.
1 365m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 170.4 km²99.2% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 21 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
851mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
177mm/an
PET
1 613mm
AET
718mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
161cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)