Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081327370

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 across 2 countries : Ileje, TA Mwabulambya

Pfafstetter: 12228903

Sub-basin area

230,7km²

Upstream area

2 477,5km²

Discharge

33,66m³/s

Mean elev.

1 473m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Songwe River1144 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Iyonda

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    0.31 km² overlap

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

Species present

23 distinct species · 32 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

32 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 18
18–17
9–17
3–8
< 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°

19,7°C

Annual rain

1 575mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,05

Runoff

366mm/an

PET

1 491mm

AET

1 019mm

Mean slope

10,6°

Water table

423cm

Forest

45%

Crops

11%

Urban

5%

Protected

0%

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