HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081154220
Bassin de Rivière Ndihira
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 1 administrative regions : Lubero
Sub-basin area
967,2km²
Upstream area
967,2km²
Discharge
10,26m³/s
Mean elev.
1 731m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 962.9 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Virunga National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
372.13 km² overlap
Parc national des Virunga
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
372.13 km² overlap
Virunga
IUCN IINational Park
365.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
247 distinct species · 825 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 Rivière Ndihira : 12 espèces reliées par 13 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
18,2°C
Annual rain
1 290mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
332mm/an
PET
1 506mm
AET
1 061mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
358cm
Forest
33%
Crops
12%
Urban
7%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)