HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081196390
Bassin de Akanyaru
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 2 countries : Bugabira, Bugesera, Gisagara, Nyanza
Sub-basin area
55,3km²
Upstream area
3 584,1km²
Discharge
28,6m³/s
Mean elev.
1 396m
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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 073mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
211mm/an
PET
1 615mm
AET
909mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
313cm
Forest
6%
Crops
16%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)