HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081145450
Bassin de Tana 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 7 administrative regions : Igembe Central, Igembe South, Mwingi North, Tharaka, Tigania East +1
Sub-basin area
3 125,8km²
Upstream area
20 609,9km²
Discharge
202,24m³/s
Mean elev.
687m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,6°C
Annual rain
689mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
154mm/an
PET
2 019mm
AET
557mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
223cm
Forest
12%
Crops
5%
Urban
6%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)