HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081094930
Bassin de Turkwel river
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 : Kapenguria, Sigor, Turkana South
Sub-basin area
603,2km²
Upstream area
3 400,7km²
Discharge
19,48m³/s
Mean elev.
1 014m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,4°C
Annual rain
566mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
172mm/an
PET
1 930mm
AET
478mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
386cm
Forest
1%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)