HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081325820
Bassin de Luwegu
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 : Ulanga
Sub-basin area
920,7km²
Upstream area
920,9km²
Discharge
20,24m³/s
Mean elev.
828m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 intersecting protected areas
Selous G.R
IUCN IVGame Reserve
904.39 km² overlap
Nyerere National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
895.74 km² overlap
Selous Game Reserve
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
877.70 km² overlap
Mwantisi O.A. (N) and Furua
IUCN Not ReportedOpen area
8.84 km² overlap
Mahenge O.A.
IUCN Not ReportedOpen area
0.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 14 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 478mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
624mm/an
PET
1 487mm
AET
938mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
270cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)