HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081133550
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 3 administrative regions : Kapseret, Kesses, Mosop
Sub-basin area
139,3km²
Upstream area
139,3km²
Discharge
1,43m³/s
Mean elev.
2 083m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 115.4 km²83.2% of basin
- 22.3 km²16.1% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kapsaret
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
10.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
213 distinct species · 834 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kipkaren River : 38 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
16,8°C
Annual rain
1 153mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
335mm/an
PET
1 740mm
AET
976mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
109cm
Forest
18%
Crops
13%
Urban
5%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)