HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081313500
Bassin · #1081313500
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 : Kilombero, Mufindi
Sub-basin area
432,6km²
Upstream area
840,5km²
Discharge
5,69m³/s
Mean elev.
1 547m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081307990235 km²
- Bassin · #1081307880173 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 430.8 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mufindi Tea Estate Land
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
117.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
233 distinct species · 398 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°
19,0°C
Annual rain
1 229mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
226mm/an
PET
1 459mm
AET
894mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
276cm
Forest
76%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)