HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081325610
Bassin de Songwe 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 2 administrative regions : Ileje, Mbeya Rural
Sub-basin area
276,6km²
Upstream area
276,8km²
Discharge
3,59m³/s
Mean elev.
1 784m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 274.1 km²99.5% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 24 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°
18,0°C
Annual rain
1 607mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
409mm/an
PET
1 422mm
AET
992mm
Mean slope
10,6°
Water table
394cm
Forest
93%
Crops
32%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)