Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081143970

Bassin · #1081143970

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 : Bura, Igembe Central, Igembe North, Isiolo South

Pfafstetter: 11720940

Sub-basin area

2 072,5km²

Upstream area

2 072,5km²

Discharge

3,96m³/s

Mean elev.

597m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

3 intersecting protected areas

  • Bisandi

    IUCN VI

    National Reserve

    301.78 km² overlap

  • Meru

    IUCN II

    National Park

    24.11 km² overlap

  • Ngaia

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    19.46 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

704 distinct species · 1 672 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

1 672 obs · 32 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 512
86–511
9–85
3–8
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 42 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin · #1081143970 : 38 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 3.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
42
Interactions affichées
34
Connectance
0.040
Patrimoniales
3
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

24,6°C

Annual rain

533mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,74

Runoff

60mm/an

PET

2 037mm

AET

441mm

Mean slope

1,3°

Water table

150cm

Forest

4%

Crops

13%

Urban

0%

Protected

20%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)