Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081128640

Bassin · #1081128640

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 6 administrative regions : Kimilili, Kiminini, Mt. Elgon, Saboti, Tongaren +1

Pfafstetter: 17297292

Sub-basin area

580,3km²

Upstream area

580,8km²

Discharge

7,21m³/s

Mean elev.

2 055m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Nzoia River3 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Mount Elgon

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    146.32 km² overlap

  • Chepkitale

    IUCN Not Reported

    National Reserve

    30.77 km² overlap

  • Sekhendu

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    6.14 km² overlap

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

Species present

546 distinct species · 1 369 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 369 obs · 15 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 369
208–368
95–207
79–94
< 79

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

Ecological tissue

Sample of 43 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 · #1081128640 : 37 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
43
Interactions affichées
40
Connectance
0.044
Patrimoniales
2
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°

17,4°C

Annual rain

1 543mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,08

Runoff

372mm/an

PET

1 698mm

AET

1 256mm

Mean slope

5,4°

Water table

235cm

Forest

23%

Crops

13%

Urban

32%

Protected

28%

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