HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081060450
Bassin · #1081060450
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 North
Sub-basin area
217,7km²
Upstream area
217,7km²
Discharge
0,48m³/s
Mean elev.
830m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 216.3 km²99.8% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Loima Hills
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
16.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 28 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
318mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
69mm/an
PET
1 888mm
AET
268mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
688cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)