HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081130240
Bassin de Lbaa Lekoitoga
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 : Isiolo North, Samburu East
Sub-basin area
64,8km²
Upstream area
14 167,1km²
Discharge
44,04m³/s
Mean elev.
927m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Isiolo938 km²
- Bassin de Ewaso Nyiro440 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 54.2 km²84.1% of basin
- 10.3 km²15.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Samburu
IUCN IINational Reserve
57.37 km² overlap
Buffalo Springs
IUCN IINational Reserve
6.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
569 distinct species · 57 153 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 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 de Lbaa Lekoitoga : 7 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 25.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
502mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
2 089mm
AET
426mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
312cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)