HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081153410
Bassin de Ntungwe
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 2 administrative regions : Bufumbira, Kinkiizi
Sub-basin area
273,4km²
Upstream area
2 926,6km²
Discharge
21,31m³/s
Mean elev.
983m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ntungwe253 km²
- Bassin de Ntungwe2 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 165.3 km²60.7% of basin
- 106.9 km²39.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Queen Elizabeth National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
154.51 km² overlap
Queen Elizabeth
IUCN IINational Park
104.07 km² overlap
Kigezi
IUCN IIIWildlife Reserve
50.46 km² overlap
Kihihi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
712 distinct species · 34 923 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Ntungwe : 10 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 7 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 12.7%, 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 011mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
221mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
855mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
147cm
Forest
23%
Crops
33%
Urban
0%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)