HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081055100
Bassin · #1081055100
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 3 administrative regions : North Horr, Turkana Central, Turkana North
Sub-basin area
470,5km²
Upstream area
92 426,3km²
Discharge
918,36m³/s
Mean elev.
367m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
29,2°C
Annual rain
212mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
2 001mm
AET
176mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
42cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)