HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081199440
Bassin de Riviere Nyamuhinga
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bukavu, Kabare, Rusizi
Sub-basin area
542,5km²
Upstream area
542,6km²
Discharge
7,58m³/s
Mean elev.
1 889m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 463.9 km²85.9% of basin
- 56.3 km²10.4% of basin
- 19.9 km²3.7% of basin
17 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Lake Kivu16.81 km²40% commune
- Gituro0.43 km²100% commune
- Mbuga0.34 km²88% commune
- Rurembo0.30 km²78% commune
- Nyawenya0.30 km²70% commune
- Mirara0.26 km²100% commune
- Gitwa0.23 km²57% commune
- Giteme0.22 km²95% commune
- Gisunyu0.20 km²47% commune
- Karenge0.20 km²27% commune
- Muhora0.19 km²100% commune
- Ngoma0.18 km²79% commune
- Nyakabanda0.11 km²47% commune
- Rutarakiro0.09 km²19% commune
- Kabuye0.05 km²15% commune
- Kabashinga0.01 km²2% commune
- Gaturo0.00 km²0% commune
2 intersecting protected areas
Kahuzi-Biega
IUCN IINational Park
103.90 km² overlap
Kahuzi-Biega National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
101.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 790 distinct species · 7 041 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Riviere Nyamuhinga : 35 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
17,4°C
Annual rain
1 609mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
480mm/an
PET
1 365mm
AET
1 159mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
294cm
Forest
43%
Crops
11%
Urban
36%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)