HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081066280
Bassin de Turkwel
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 : Loima, Turkana Central, Turkana South
Sub-basin area
943,5km²
Upstream area
19 488,3km²
Discharge
67,68m³/s
Mean elev.
675m
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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
238mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 957mm
AET
199mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
415cm
Forest
1%
Crops
1%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)