National Park · uga
Murchison Falls
- 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).
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).
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
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Sambiya Riversub-area1 942,9 km²overlap1055.27 km²27%
- Bassin de Albert Nilesub-area576,2 km²overlap502.38 km²13%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area505,1 km²overlap413.86 km²11%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area406,7 km²overlap404.82 km²10%
- Bassin de Ayagosub-area1 221,4 km²overlap266.35 km²7%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area617,2 km²overlap238.63 km²6%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area192,6 km²overlap191.71 km²5%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area142 km²overlap141.41 km²4%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area217 km²overlap121.61 km²3%
8 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Albert Nilesub-area404,4 km²overlap118.55 km²3%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area106 km²overlap105.56 km²3%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area123,3 km²overlap96.54 km²2%
- Bassin de Victoria Nilesub-area734,8 km²overlap70.94 km²2%
- Bassin de Alarasub-area944,4 km²overlap67.52 km²2%
- Bassin de Lake Albert to Albert Nilesub-area244,9 km²overlap61.67 km²2%
- Bassin de Albert Nilesub-area181,3 km²overlap16.21 km²0%
- Bassin de Albert Nilesub-area1 577,3 km²overlap4.76 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Victoria Nileord 7len here197.44 km24%total835 km
- Sambiya Riverord 2len here65.05 km99%total66 km
- Waringo Riverord 2len here11.44 km100%total11 km
- Albert Nileord 7len here7.46 km2%total471 km
- Murchison Fallsord 2len here4.45 km20%total23 km
- Ayago Riverord 4len here3.81 km100%total4 km
- District Border Kiryandongo - Masindiord 3len here0.14 km0%total29 km
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
- 2.26884, 31.81185
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.