Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080008340

Bassin · #1080008340

A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.

Crosses 2 administrative regions : Lamu East, Lamu West

Coastal basinPfafstetter: 11710700

Sub-basin area

451,4km²

Upstream area

451,4km²

Discharge

1,42m³/s

Mean elev.

11m

Administrative coverage

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Dodori

    IUCN Not Reported

    National Reserve

    9.95 km² overlap

  • Mangrove Swamps

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    4.33 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

7 distinct species · 10 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

10 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 10
10–9
10–9
10–9
< 10

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,0°C

Annual rain

820mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,43

Runoff

244mm/an

PET

1 435mm

AET

694mm

Mean slope

0,3°

Water table

35cm

Forest

89%

Crops

3%

Urban

2%

Protected

13%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)