HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081100430
Bassin · #1081100430
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, Samburu West, Turkana East
Sub-basin area
2 315,6km²
Upstream area
2 315,6km²
Discharge
8,29m³/s
Mean elev.
1 233m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1868.6 km²81.1% of basin
- 331.3 km²14.4% of basin
- 105.3 km²4.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ndotos Range
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
2.68 km² overlap
Leroghi
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
415 distinct species · 694 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin · #1081100430 : 38 espèces reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,2°C
Annual rain
492mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
115mm/an
PET
1 961mm
AET
413mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
552cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)