HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081163620
Bassin · #1081163620
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 across 2 countries : Lake Victoria
Sub-basin area
714,6km²
Upstream area
60 607,8km²
Discharge
353,56m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Akagera1230 km²
- Bassin · #1081164960799 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake VictoriaLake Victoria · Uganda672.0 km²94.5% of basin
- 39.4 km²5.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
1 906mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
454mm/an
PET
1 565mm
AET
1 314mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)