HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081057890
Bassin · #1081057890
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 : Loima, Turkana Central
Sub-basin area
221,6km²
Upstream area
1 455,9km²
Discharge
5,54m³/s
Mean elev.
509m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081058130755 km²
- Bassin · #1081058230479 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 218.9 km²99.2% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
29,0°C
Annual rain
198mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
93mm/an
PET
1 974mm
AET
165mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
298cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)