National Park · tza
Katavi National Park
- Area
- 4 207 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1974
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1974
- Managing authority
- Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
708 distinct species · 3 237 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Katavi National Park : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology22 basins · 0 lakes · 4 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
224,5km
Basins crossed
22
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
22 148km²
Discharge in basins
365,6m³/s
Mean precip.
971mm/an
Mean T°
25,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,47
Mean runoff
179mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 026m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #86900sub-area595,5 km²overlap511.91 km²12%
- Basin #83260sub-area2 312,6 km²overlap490.59 km²12%
- Basin #81190sub-area653,6 km²overlap432.24 km²10%
- Bassin de Katuma Riversub-area394,4 km²overlap391.38 km²9%
- Bassin de Manyosub-area1 388,5 km²overlap340.24 km²8%
- Bassin de Katumasub-area526,6 km²overlap337.84 km²8%
- Bassin de Kavuu Riversub-area416,7 km²overlap294.36 km²7%
- Bassin de Katuma Riversub-area282,7 km²overlap259.25 km²6%
- Bassin de Kavuu Riversub-area1 029,2 km²overlap215.13 km²5%
13 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Rungwa Riversub-area929,1 km²overlap210.61 km²5%
- Bassin de Kavuu Riversub-area222,6 km²overlap210.00 km²5%
- Bassin de Katuma Riversub-area237,3 km²overlap149.01 km²4%
- Basin #79140sub-area298,4 km²overlap103.09 km²2%
- Basin #81510sub-area289 km²overlap90.72 km²2%
- Bassin de Kavuu Riversub-area903,2 km²overlap81.94 km²2%
- Bassin de Kavuu Riversub-area264,6 km²overlap73.96 km²2%
- Bassin de Kavuu Riversub-area5,3 km²overlap5.28 km²0%
- Basin #81410sub-area3,4 km²overlap3.43 km²0%
- Bassin de Rungwa Riversub-area419,3 km²overlap2.48 km²0%
- Bassin de Kavuu Riversub-area744,4 km²overlap2.08 km²0%
- Bassin de Katuma Riversub-area428,8 km²overlap1.17 km²0%
- Bassin de Katumasub-area1 147,2 km²overlap0.17 km²0%
Rivers / streams (4, ord ≥ 4)
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -6.98044, 31.32009
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.