HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081168700
Bassin de Muvumba
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 4 administrative regions across 3 countries : Isingiro, Kyerwa, Nyagatare, Ruhaama
Sub-basin area
1,3km²
Upstream area
41 129km²
Discharge
256,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 286m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Muvumba288 km²
- Bassin de Muvumba106 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 0.6 km²51.1% of basin
- 0.5 km²40.5% of basin
- 0.1 km²5.7% of basin
- Nyagatare0.0 km²2.8% of basin
1 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- MuniniNyagatare0.04 km²3% commune
1 intersecting protected areas
Ibanda-Kyerwa National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
886mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
179mm/an
PET
1 682mm
AET
749mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
17cm
Forest
0%
Crops
50%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)