HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081088220
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 1 administrative regions : Kibanda
Sub-basin area
406,7km²
Upstream area
406,7km²
Discharge
1,12m³/s
Mean elev.
932m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Murchison Falls
IUCN IINational Park
404.82 km² overlap
Karuma
IUCN IIIWildlife Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
637 distinct species · 7 926 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 7 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 : 5 espèces + 2 bulles famille, 7 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 33.3%, 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 240mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
128mm/an
PET
1 803mm
AET
1 049mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
182cm
Forest
2%
Crops
58%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)