HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081080270
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
662,1km²
Upstream area
12 482,6km²
Discharge
59,67m³/s
Mean elev.
736m
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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
308mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
109mm/an
PET
1 981mm
AET
257mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
528cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)