Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081090370

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 2 administrative regions : Kacheliba, Turkana South

EndorheicPfafstetter: 11542459

Sub-basin area

500,1km²

Upstream area

9 988,4km²

Discharge

49,26m³/s

Mean elev.

901m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

11 distinct species · 23 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

23 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
8–7
8–7
< 8

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

24,5°C

Annual rain

483mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,75

Runoff

128mm/an

PET

1 945mm

AET

407mm

Mean slope

4,5°

Water table

423cm

Forest

0%

Crops

12%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)