HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081314400
Bassin · #1081314400
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 : Kilwa
Sub-basin area
89km²
Upstream area
15 725,3km²
Discharge
142,63m³/s
Mean elev.
104m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081314570560 km²
- Bassin de Matandu River379 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Mtarure
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 12 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 199mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
177mm/an
PET
1 509mm
AET
946mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
217cm
Forest
90%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)