HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081029040
Bassin · #1081029040
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
143,1km²
Upstream area
6 403,5km²
Discharge
18,14m³/s
Mean elev.
483m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lonanit2852 km²
- Bassin · #1081034870306 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 72.9 km²51.2% of basin
- 69.5 km²48.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 8 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
376mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
29mm/an
PET
1 923mm
AET
315mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
10cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)