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
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
- Bassin de Turkwel989 km²
- Bassin de Turkwel river603 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 262.8 km²52.8% of basin
- 235.1 km²47.2% of basin
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.
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)