HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081040360
Bassin · #1081040360
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
303,4km²
Upstream area
2 679km²
Discharge
12,49m³/s
Mean elev.
536m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081043290203 km²
- Bassin · #1081043520160 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 176.1 km²58.3% of basin
- 125.9 km²41.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
313mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
67mm/an
PET
1 920mm
AET
262mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
81cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)