HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081317070
Bassin · #1081317070
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 : Kilombero
Sub-basin area
326,8km²
Upstream area
2 590,8km²
Discharge
18,43m³/s
Mean elev.
477m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081315430207 km²
- Bassin · #1081315580162 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Kilombero GCA
IUCN Not ReportedGame controlled area
156.59 km² overlap
Kilombero Valley Floodplain
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
43.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 9 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 380mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
285mm/an
PET
1 594mm
AET
944mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
204cm
Forest
95%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)