HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081135490
Bassin de Nanyuki
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 13 administrative regions : Buuri, Central Imenti, Gichugu, Kieni, Kirinyaga Central +8
Sub-basin area
1 208,7km²
Upstream area
1 208,7km²
Discharge
4,87m³/s
Mean elev.
2 304m
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°
14,5°C
Annual rain
960mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
190mm/an
PET
1 516mm
AET
741mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
215cm
Forest
25%
Crops
10%
Urban
4%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)