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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Akanyaru890 km²
- Bassin de Ngiryi379 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.5 km²53.6% of basin
- 24.1 km²43.7% of basin
- 1.2 km²2.2% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.4% of basin
22 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Gicumbi5.36 km²100% commune
- Nyamunini3.35 km²100% commune
- Muyebe2.82 km²100% commune
- Masangano2.71 km²100% commune
- Karambi2.34 km²55% commune
- Matara2.31 km²100% commune
- Karehe2.01 km²99% commune
- Kamatamu1.74 km²100% commune
- Kivugiza1.68 km²45% commune
- Kabeza1.35 km²28% commune
- Rwashangwe1.23 km²48% commune
- Mukoni1.06 km²52% commune
- Gatongati0.78 km²41% commune
- Gasagara0.55 km²24% commune
- Kanyinya0.46 km²16% commune
- Gihama0.42 km²22% commune
- Ruhuha0.25 km²7% commune
- Gisika0.21 km²11% commune
- Muyenzi0.17 km²6% commune
- Rutete0.10 km²5% commune
- Karama0.07 km²3% commune
- Rugasa0.01 km²0% commune
1 intersecting protected areas
Lacs du Nord
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Landscape
1.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
28 distinct species · 78 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)