HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081022690
Bassin · #1081022690
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 : Turkana North, Turkana West
Sub-basin area
490km²
Upstream area
13 361,7km²
Discharge
22,09m³/s
Mean elev.
475m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tarach river1417 km²
- Bassin · #1081029040143 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 486.3 km²99.7% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,8°C
Annual rain
400mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 926mm
AET
336mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
6cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)