HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081149050
Bassin de Nyando 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 4 administrative regions : Aldai, Muhoroni, Nyando, Tinderet
Sub-basin area
303,1km²
Upstream area
3 009,3km²
Discharge
43,68m³/s
Mean elev.
1 334m
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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
1 360mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
439mm/an
PET
1 886mm
AET
1 149mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
101cm
Forest
46%
Crops
26%
Urban
19%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)