HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081063540
Bassin de Matheniko
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 across 2 countries : Dodoth, Matheniko, Turkana West
Sub-basin area
627,5km²
Upstream area
627,5km²
Discharge
0,33m³/s
Mean elev.
1 037m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 462.3 km²74.0% of basin
- 161.4 km²25.8% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Matheniko
IUCN IIIWildlife Reserve
75.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 25 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
493mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
19mm/an
PET
1 822mm
AET
415mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
529cm
Forest
0%
Crops
35%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)