HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081081030
Bassin de Albert Nile
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 : Jonam, Nwoya
Sub-basin area
181,3km²
Upstream area
410 316,4km²
Discharge
2 145,09m³/s
Mean elev.
700m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Albert Nile576 km²
- Bassin de Albert Nile404 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 141.2 km²78.2% of basin
- 39.3 km²21.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Murchison Falls
IUCN IINational Park
16.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
497 distinct species · 9 495 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Albert Nile : 10 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 1 bulle famille, 6 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 041mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 870mm
AET
880mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
228cm
Forest
4%
Crops
44%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)