HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081094920
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 5 administrative regions : Kacheliba, Kapenguria, Sigor, Turkana South, unknown 3
Sub-basin area
988,7km²
Upstream area
6 087,4km²
Discharge
28,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 437m
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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
720mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
135mm/an
PET
1 793mm
AET
608mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
618cm
Forest
0%
Crops
42%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)