World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · rwa
Nyungwe National Park
- Area
- 1 019 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2023
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 2023
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 052 distinct species · 81 817 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 4 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 Nyungwe National Park : 4 espèces reliées par 3 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 50.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 17 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
116,3km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
4 955km²
Discharge in basins
12,2m³/s
Mean precip.
1 461mm/an
Mean T°
17,7°C
Moisture idx
0,02
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
322mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 893m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Ruhwasub-area943,5 km²overlap390.00 km²38%
- Bassin de Karundurasub-area457,6 km²overlap164.86 km²16%
- Bassin de Rukararasub-area518,1 km²overlap159.57 km²16%
- Bassin de Akanyarusub-area1 876,8 km²overlap123.63 km²12%
- Bassin de Kaburantwasub-area536,3 km²overlap114.01 km²11%
- Bassin de Kilimbisub-area211,1 km²overlap40.78 km²4%
- Bassin de Shangazisub-area240 km²overlap14.22 km²1%
- Bassin de Mbinurumesub-area520 km²overlap11.80 km²1%
- Bassin de Kokosub-area925,6 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
Rivers / streams (17, ord ≥ 4)
- Rubyiroord 2len here16.13 km70%total23 km
- Nyanzaliord 2len here12.80 km92%total14 km
- Nyirabugoyiord 2len here10.98 km54%total20 km
- Ruhwaord 3len here10.00 km14%total70 km
- Kaburantwaord 3len here8.88 km12%total76 km
- Shyaraord 3len here8.82 km100%total9 km
- Akanyaruord 4len here7.05 km4%total192 km
- Kokoord 3len here6.47 km17%total38 km
- Rubyiroord 2len here6.10 km15%total40 km
- Kamiranzovuord 1len here5.87 km24%total25 km
- Busoroord 1len here5.63 km100%total6 km
- Bwujeord 1len here4.93 km99%total5 km
5 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- -2.55528, 29.27252
- 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.