HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081318450
Bassin de Ruaha
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, Njombe Rural
Sub-basin area
694,5km²
Upstream area
694,7km²
Discharge
6,59m³/s
Mean elev.
1 032m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 532.4 km²77.0% of basin
- 159.3 km²23.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
79 distinct species · 110 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
1 550mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
297mm/an
PET
1 545mm
AET
984mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
316cm
Forest
99%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)