HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081072430
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 : Kacheliba, Loima, Turkana South
Sub-basin area
1 176,9km²
Upstream area
15 167,6km²
Discharge
62,83m³/s
Mean elev.
690m
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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
263mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
62mm/an
PET
1 975mm
AET
219mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
414cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)