HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081217380
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 5 administrative regions : Buterere, Gihanga, Lake Tanganyika, Mutimbuzi
Sub-basin area
53,7km²
Upstream area
13 519,3km²
Discharge
94,08m³/s
Mean elev.
773m
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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
903mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
215mm/an
PET
1 676mm
AET
768mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
14cm
Forest
12%
Crops
18%
Urban
23%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)