HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081172900
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 4 administrative regions : Bukoba Rural, Karagwe, Missenyi, Muleba
Sub-basin area
1 587,8km²
Upstream area
6 744,9km²
Discharge
24,96m³/s
Mean elev.
1 263m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081188900475 km²
- Bassin · #108118905041 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1185.8 km²75.0% of basin
- 339.6 km²21.5% of basin
- 55.2 km²3.5% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Burigi-Chato National Park
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
15.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
303 distinct species · 2 058 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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 161mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
1 592mm
AET
981mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
256cm
Forest
26%
Crops
11%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)