HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081123420
Bassin · #1081123420
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 : Laikipia North, Samburu West
Sub-basin area
77,7km²
Upstream area
2 011,3km²
Discharge
3,61m³/s
Mean elev.
1 787m
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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
557mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
40mm/an
PET
1 758mm
AET
470mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
195cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)