HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081195950
Bassin de Rukarara
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 5 administrative regions : Nyamagabe, Nyamasheke, Nyanza, Nyaruguru, Rusizi
Sub-basin area
518,1km²
Upstream area
518,1km²
Discharge
4,78m³/s
Mean elev.
2 151m
Administrative coverage
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°
16,3°C
Annual rain
1 480mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
303mm/an
PET
1 336mm
AET
1 062mm
Mean slope
11,3°
Water table
457cm
Forest
46%
Crops
27%
Urban
16%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)