Ontologia

National Park · uga

Murchison Falls

II · Parc national3 878 km²Established 1952
Key facts
Area
3 878 km²
IUCN cat.
II
Year
1952

Overview

Designation
National Park
IUCN category
II · Parc national

Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public

Established
1952
Managing authority
Uganda Wildlife Authority

Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).

Species present

1 613 distinct species · 236 480 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 25 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Murchison Falls : 23 espèces + 2 bulles famille, 19 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 2 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).

Espèces affichées
25
Interactions affichées
19
Connectance
0.063
Patrimoniales
0
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydrology17 basins · 2 lakes · 7 rivers

Hydrology metrics for this exact territory

Stream length here

289,8km

Lake surface here

9,29km²

Basins crossed

17

Max stream order

7

Max drainage

410 316km²

Discharge in basins

13 563,3m³/s

Mean precip.

1 190mm/an

Mean T°

24,2°C

Moisture idx

-0,34

Mean runoff

125mm/an

Mean elev. (basins)

863m

Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10

Location

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Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)

Centroid
2.26884, 31.81185
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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.