HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081121550
Bassin de Kerio
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 : Baringo North, Keiyo North, Marakwet West
Sub-basin area
978,7km²
Upstream area
2 506,2km²
Discharge
24,07m³/s
Mean elev.
1 429m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,8°C
Annual rain
905mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
248mm/an
PET
1 917mm
AET
764mm
Mean slope
7,6°
Water table
347cm
Forest
6%
Crops
17%
Urban
4%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)