National Park · uga
Queen Elizabeth
- Area
- 2 099 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
1 721 distinct species · 221 142 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Queen Elizabeth : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology15 basins · 10 lakes · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
267,1km
Lake surface here
31,90km²
Basins crossed
15
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
11 198km²
Discharge in basins
78,7m³/s
Mean precip.
1 033mm/an
Mean T°
21,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,39
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
167mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 158m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Kazinga Channelsub-area658,7 km²overlap502.19 km²24%
- Bassin de Nyamwambasub-area738,1 km²overlap293.89 km²14%
- Bassin de Nyamwerusub-area450,8 km²overlap254.50 km²12%
- Bassin de Kaisisub-area624,9 km²overlap225.93 km²11%
- Bassin de Mpangasub-area431,2 km²overlap159.86 km²8%
- Bassin de Durasub-area2 588,2 km²overlap125.05 km²6%
- Bassin de Kazinga Channelsub-area395,6 km²overlap121.86 km²6%
- Bassin de Ishashasub-area1 123,4 km²overlap120.13 km²6%
- Bassin de Ntungwesub-area273,4 km²overlap104.07 km²5%
6 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Nyamugasanisub-area740 km²overlap94.86 km²5%
- Bassin de Nchwerasub-area461,5 km²overlap43.66 km²2%
- Bassin de Takosub-area466,8 km²overlap31.99 km²2%
- Bassin de Lutotosub-area711,7 km²overlap14.32 km²1%
- Bassin de Nchwerasub-area139,6 km²overlap5.10 km²0%
- Bassin de Mpangasub-area499,7 km²overlap1.14 km²0%
Lakes (10, top by area)
- Edwardarea2 242 km²avg depth34.2 m
- Georgearea260,7 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lake Nyamusingirearea4 km²avg depth9.5 m
- Katwe Crater Lakearea1,7 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Kikorongo Crater Lakearea1,3 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 1407068area0,7 km²avg depth10.9 m
- Lac 1407169area0,6 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 1407075area0,6 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Lac 1407141area0,5 km²avg depth5.8 m
1 more lakes
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- Kazinga Channelord 5len here84.05 km94%total90 km
- Nyamweruord 3len here38.87 km90%total43 km
- Nyamugasaniord 3len here17.88 km17%total103 km
- Ishashaord 3len here15.21 km9%total178 km
- Nyamwambaord 2len here13.56 km46%total29 km
- Nchweraord 2len here13.16 km15%total87 km
- Ntungweord 4len here12.09 km9%total131 km
- Kiryantamaord 2len here10.71 km100%total11 km
- Takoord 2len here10.01 km14%total73 km
- Rukokiord 2len here9.91 km61%total16 km
- Kaisiord 1len here9.24 km90%total10 km
- Duraord 3len here8.53 km8%total106 km
7 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
- -0.24610, 29.97753
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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.