HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081063080
Bassin · #1081063080
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 West
Sub-basin area
27,8km²
Upstream area
2 116km²
Discharge
1,17m³/s
Mean elev.
806m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10810636801460 km²
- Bassin de Matheniko628 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 16.6 km²60.0% of basin
- 11.1 km²40.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
381mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
1 895mm
AET
320mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
312cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)