HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081337490
Bassin · #1081337490
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 : Songea Rural
Sub-basin area
190,4km²
Upstream area
190,4km²
Discharge
1,66m³/s
Mean elev.
897m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 189.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Songea Fuel
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
45.56 km² overlap
Gumbiro
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 233mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
286mm/an
PET
1 540mm
AET
892mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
151cm
Forest
92%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)