HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081122770
Bassin de Nzoia River
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 : Cherangany, Kiminini, Soy
Sub-basin area
6,4km²
Upstream area
2 147,3km²
Discharge
18,14m³/s
Mean elev.
1 818m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Moyben1389 km²
- Bassin de Noigameget752 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Soy4.8 km²75.0% of basin
- 1.6 km²25.0% of basin
- Kiminini0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 30 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°
18,6°C
Annual rain
1 095mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
333mm/an
PET
1 863mm
AET
926mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
104cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
10%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)