HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081130730
Bassin de Old Molo 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 1 administrative regions : Baringo South
Sub-basin area
83km²
Upstream area
3 892,8km²
Discharge
43,77m³/s
Mean elev.
1 010m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Perkerra1454 km²
- Bassin de Molo945 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 82.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lake Baringo
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
42.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
300 distinct species · 599 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Old Molo River : 25 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
650mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
201mm/an
PET
2 082mm
AET
548mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
125cm
Forest
0%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)