HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081089330
Bassin de Kerio
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 2 administrative regions : Turkana East, Turkana South
Sub-basin area
249,8km²
Upstream area
8 869,2km²
Discharge
73,31m³/s
Mean elev.
592m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kerio545 km²
- Bassin de Kerio85 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 128.9 km²51.9% of basin
- 119.7 km²48.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 26 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
282mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
240mm/an
PET
2 074mm
AET
236mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
447cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)