Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081315180

Bassin de Matandu 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 1 administrative regions : Kilwa

Pfafstetter: 11750220

Sub-basin area

1 050,9km²

Upstream area

1 050,9km²

Discharge

8,74m³/s

Mean elev.

252m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Matandu River145 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

5 intersecting protected areas

  • Kilwa O.A.

    IUCN Not Reported

    Open area

    849.88 km² overlap

  • Nampekeso

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    147.17 km² overlap

  • Mtarure

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    63.74 km² overlap

  • Selous G.R

    IUCN IV

    Game Reserve

    1.68 km² overlap

  • Liwale WMA

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wildlife Management Area

    0.05 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

10 distinct species · 19 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

19 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
5–7
3–4
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

25,0°C

Annual rain

1 168mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,23

Runoff

251mm/an

PET

1 524mm

AET

922mm

Mean slope

1,2°

Water table

106cm

Forest

2%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

6%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)