HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081172840
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 2 administrative regions : Karagwe, Missenyi
Sub-basin area
361,5km²
Upstream area
47 435,7km²
Discharge
279,51m³/s
Mean elev.
1 177m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kibologa358 km²
- Bassin de Akagera195 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 226.4 km²62.9% of basin
- 133.5 km²37.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
308 distinct species · 2 906 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 122mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
212mm/an
PET
1 633mm
AET
949mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
41cm
Forest
21%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)