HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081130610
Bassin de Kipkaren 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 4 administrative regions : Chesumei, Kapseret, Mosop, Turbo
Sub-basin area
375,7km²
Upstream area
1 174,8km²
Discharge
12,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 942m
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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
1 331mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
393mm/an
PET
1 795mm
AET
1 125mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
220cm
Forest
12%
Crops
17%
Urban
17%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)