HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081171550
Bassin de Akagera
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 : Karagwe, Kyerwa, Missenyi
Sub-basin area
194,5km²
Upstream area
46 716,2km²
Discharge
275,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 246m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Akagera949 km²
- Bassin de Rwakakuru663 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 93.7 km²48.4% of basin
- 80.8 km²41.7% of basin
- 19.1 km²9.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
103 distinct species · 163 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 Akagera : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
1 017mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
154mm/an
PET
1 638mm
AET
860mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
189cm
Forest
11%
Crops
12%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)