Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081100610

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 11 administrative regions across 2 countries : Endebess, Kacheliba, Kapenguria, Kongasis, Kwanza +6

EndorheicPfafstetter: 11542490

Sub-basin area

2 367,5km²

Upstream area

2 367,5km²

Discharge

18,6m³/s

Mean elev.

1 731m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Turkwel989 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 more

6 intersecting protected areas

  • Mount Elgon

    IUCN II

    National Park

    223.77 km² overlap

  • Mount Elgon

    IUCN Not Applicable

    UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve

    223.77 km² overlap

  • Mount Elgon

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    77.23 km² overlap

  • Mt. Elgon

    IUCN II

    National Park

    34.08 km² overlap

  • Chepkitale

    IUCN Not Reported

    National Reserve

    6.75 km² overlap

  • Amudat

    IUCN VI

    Community Wildlife Management Area

    3.36 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 612 distinct species · 18 880 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

18 880 obs · 50 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 4 000
1 110–3 999
196–1 109
29–195
< 29

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 14 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Turkwel : 14 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).

Espèces affichées
14
Interactions affichées
9
Connectance
0.099
Patrimoniales
0
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

19,0°C

Annual rain

1 071mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,36

Runoff

207mm/an

PET

1 721mm

AET

867mm

Mean slope

6,0°

Water table

361cm

Forest

6%

Crops

40%

Urban

3%

Protected

11%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)