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
224 distinct species · 351 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Mpanga : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
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)