HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081146580
Bassin de Kazinga Channel
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 : Bunyaruguru, Busongora, Kitagwenda
Sub-basin area
395,6km²
Upstream area
9 826,9km²
Discharge
40,48m³/s
Mean elev.
1 010m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081144680450 km²
- Bassin · #10811445506 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 245.8 km²62.4% of basin
- 148.0 km²37.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Queen Elizabeth National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
240.75 km² overlap
Queen Elizabeth
IUCN IINational Park
121.86 km² overlap
Kyambura
IUCN IIIWildlife Reserve
118.90 km² overlap
Kasyoha - Kitomi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
18.51 km² overlap
Kazinga
IUCN VIWildlife Sanctuary
6.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
649 distinct species · 27 574 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Kazinga Channel : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 1 bulle famille, 11 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 8.1%, 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
960mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
152mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
812mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
187cm
Forest
38%
Crops
42%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)