HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080041840
Bassin · #1080041840
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 1 administrative regions : Kajiado South
Sub-basin area
2,9km²
Upstream area
8 349,6km²
Discharge
23,67m³/s
Mean elev.
1 126m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin · #1081202280931 km²
- Bassin · #1081202470635 km²
- Bassin · #1081202350270 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Amboseli
IUCN IINational Park
2.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
118 distinct species · 240 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Bassin · #1080041840 : 8 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.5%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,4°C
Annual rain
644mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
79mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
544mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)