HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081070640
Bassin · #1081070640
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 : Laisamis, Turkana Central, Turkana East
Sub-basin area
533km²
Upstream area
4 226,8km²
Discharge
7,9m³/s
Mean elev.
427m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081074100748 km²
- Bassin · #108107430012 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 464.6 km²87.5% of basin
- 58.8 km²11.1% of basin
- 7.3 km²1.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
192mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
57mm/an
PET
2 073mm
AET
159mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
401cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)