HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081104190
Bassin · #1081104190
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 2 administrative regions : Samburu North, Turkana East
Sub-basin area
298,6km²
Upstream area
5 945,3km²
Discharge
25,08m³/s
Mean elev.
629m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10811097101269 km²
- Bassin de Nginyang1004 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 275.3 km²92.6% of basin
- 21.9 km²7.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
84 distinct species · 125 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 · #1081104190 : 9 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 16.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
379mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
206mm/an
PET
2 104mm
AET
318mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
468cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)