HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081244710
Bassin de Ruchugi
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 1 administrative regions : Kasulu
Sub-basin area
383,7km²
Upstream area
383,7km²
Discharge
1,28m³/s
Mean elev.
1 156m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Makere South
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
60.31 km² overlap
Malagarasi-Muyovozi Wetlands
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 8 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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
1 061mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
105mm/an
PET
1 611mm
AET
896mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
196cm
Forest
74%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)