HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081088150
Bassin de Victoria 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 : Kibanda, Nwoya
Sub-basin area
192,6km²
Upstream area
350 663,1km²
Discharge
2 612,76m³/s
Mean elev.
806m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Victoria Nile217 km²
- Bassin de Victoria Nile106 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 109.7 km²57.2% of basin
- 82.0 km²42.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Murchison Falls
IUCN IINational Park
191.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
340 distinct species · 1 490 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Victoria Nile : 23 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 2 bulles famille, 25 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 2 bulles regroupent 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
1 196mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
113mm/an
PET
1 836mm
AET
1 011mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
215cm
Forest
0%
Crops
52%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)