National Park · uga
Rwenzori Mountains
- Area
- 994 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1991
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1991
- Managing authority
- Uganda Wildlife Authority
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 477 distinct species · 13 699 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydrology11 basins · 0 lakes · 13 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
100,0km
Basins crossed
11
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
34 160km²
Discharge in basins
11,1m³/s
Mean precip.
1 276mm/an
Mean T°
19,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,18
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
151mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 558m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Durasub-area2 588,2 km²overlap377.57 km²38%
- Bassin de Lamyasub-area509 km²overlap195.14 km²20%
- Bassin de Nyamugasanisub-area740 km²overlap133.78 km²13%
- Bassin de Nyamwambasub-area738,1 km²overlap88.21 km²9%
- Bassin de Takosub-area466,8 km²overlap51.79 km²5%
- Bassin de Semlikisub-area1 432,7 km²overlap40.87 km²4%
- Bassin de Semlikisub-area340,3 km²overlap35.23 km²4%
- Bassin de Butawusub-area389,9 km²overlap34.47 km²3%
- Bassin de Rwanolisub-area322,3 km²overlap20.26 km²2%
2 more basinssorted by overlap
Rivers / streams (13, ord ≥ 4)
- Mubukuord 3len here18.86 km26%total72 km
- Nyamugasaniord 3len here16.69 km16%total103 km
- Lamyaord 3len here16.12 km27%total61 km
- Rwimiord 3len here9.94 km14%total69 km
- Nyamwambaord 2len here9.51 km32%total29 km
- Mugusuord 2len here8.43 km100%total8 km
- Takoord 2len here7.72 km11%total73 km
- Mulyambuliord 2len here5.85 km33%total18 km
- Kurugutaord 1len here2.56 km100%total3 km
- Bujukuord 1len here2.10 km100%total2 km
- river ruboniord 1len here1.72 km47%total4 km
- Eshaord 1len here0.43 km6%total7 km
1 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
- 0.43417, 29.99404
- 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.