HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081141950
Bassin de Mpanga
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 3 administrative regions : Ibanda, Kibale, Kitagwenda
Sub-basin area
499,7km²
Upstream area
5 217,6km²
Discharge
22,33m³/s
Mean elev.
1 302m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mpanga1536 km²
- Bassin de Katonga River250 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 276.0 km²55.5% of basin
- 208.9 km²42.0% of basin
- 12.6 km²2.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Queen Elizabeth National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1.14 km² overlap
Queen Elizabeth
IUCN IINational Park
1.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,2°C
Annual rain
1 141mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
145mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
966mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
297cm
Forest
5%
Crops
46%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)