HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081100370
Bassin · #1081100370
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 : Samburu North, Turkana East, unknown 2
Sub-basin area
446,3km²
Upstream area
7 635,3km²
Discharge
38,7m³/s
Mean elev.
451m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10811040101243 km²
- Bassin · #1081104190299 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 202.8 km²45.6% of basin
- 196.4 km²44.2% of basin
- 45.1 km²10.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 5 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
312mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
229mm/an
PET
2 148mm
AET
260mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
382cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)