HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081207680
Bassin de Ruvubu
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 : Buhinyuza, Muyinga, Ngara
Sub-basin area
189,2km²
Upstream area
9 713,2km²
Discharge
90,2m³/s
Mean elev.
1 465m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ruvubu689 km²
- Bassin de Migogo270 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 149.0 km²79.1% of basin
- BuhinyuzaMuyinga · Burundi26.9 km²14.3% of basin
- 12.5 km²6.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruvubu
IUCN IINational Park
22.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
978mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
1 571mm
AET
828mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
377cm
Forest
66%
Crops
37%
Urban
1%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)