HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081214840
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 6 administrative regions : Buhiga, Butezi, Gitega, Mutumba, Nyabikere +1
Sub-basin area
458,9km²
Upstream area
7 746,1km²
Discharge
74,14m³/s
Mean elev.
1 551m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sanzu935 km²
- Bassin de Ruvubu150 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 184.8 km²40.4% of basin
- 144.8 km²31.7% of basin
- 71.3 km²15.6% of basin
- 46.8 km²10.2% of basin
- 8.9 km²2.0% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ruvubu
IUCN IINational Park
97.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
161 distinct species · 230 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°
19,0°C
Annual rain
1 171mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
271mm/an
PET
1 564mm
AET
982mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
399cm
Forest
8%
Crops
22%
Urban
8%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)