HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081144360
Bassin de Naro Moru
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 8 administrative regions : Gichugu, Kieni, Kirinyaga Central, Laikipia East, Manyatta +3
Sub-basin area
239,8km²
Upstream area
904,3km²
Discharge
8,76m³/s
Mean elev.
2 261m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081146330438 km²
- Bassin · #1081146180227 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 121.4 km²50.9% of basin
- 111.5 km²46.7% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.9% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.8% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
50.90 km² overlap
Mt. Kenya
IUCN IINational Reserve
39.31 km² overlap
Mount Kenya
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
39.29 km² overlap
Mt. Kenya
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
34.88 km² overlap
Ol Pejeta
IUCN Not ReportedCommunity Conservancy
32.88 km² overlap
Solio Ranch and Rhino Sanctuary
IUCN Not ReportedPrivate Ranch
2.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 031 distinct species · 7 246 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Naro Moru : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
14,6°C
Annual rain
1 044mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
274mm/an
PET
1 532mm
AET
799mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
136cm
Forest
16%
Crops
4%
Urban
2%
Protected
47%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)