HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081088340
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
123,3km²
Upstream area
123,3km²
Discharge
0,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 006m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Murchison Falls
IUCN IINational Park
96.54 km² overlap
Karuma
IUCN IIIWildlife Reserve
26.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
211 distinct species · 662 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 : 19 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 12 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 6.3%, 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
1 262mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
141mm/an
PET
1 795mm
AET
1 068mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
123cm
Forest
9%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)