HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081103800
Bassin de Kafu River
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 4 administrative regions : Buruli, Kibanda, Nakaseke
Sub-basin area
493,5km²
Upstream area
16 388,1km²
Discharge
77,51m³/s
Mean elev.
1 059m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kafu River670 km²
- Bassin de Lugogo River589 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 199.0 km²40.5% of basin
- Buruli152.1 km²31.0% of basin
- 140.0 km²28.5% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kaduku
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
5.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
475 distinct species · 7 073 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Kafu River : 24 espèces + 2 bulles famille, 22 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 6.8%, 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 182mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
1 760mm
AET
1 000mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
58cm
Forest
0%
Crops
41%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)