HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081149980
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 : Kabondo Kasipul, Nyakach, Nyando, Sigowet/Soin
Sub-basin area
454,3km²
Upstream area
4 005,5km²
Discharge
57,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nyando river542 km²
- Bassin de Nyando river303 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 285.1 km²63.0% of basin
- 136.2 km²30.1% of basin
- 30.9 km²6.8% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
677 distinct species · 3 269 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Nyando river : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 279mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
397mm/an
PET
1 895mm
AET
1 083mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
81cm
Forest
23%
Crops
15%
Urban
13%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)