HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081211040
Bassin de Ruzizi
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 : Buganda, Murwi, Uvira
Sub-basin area
24,2km²
Upstream area
11 390,1km²
Discharge
86,79m³/s
Mean elev.
873m
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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
979mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
236mm/an
PET
1 756mm
AET
827mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
220cm
Forest
64%
Crops
49%
Urban
46%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)