HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081150410
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 3 administrative regions : Igembe South, Mwingi North, Tharaka
Sub-basin area
350,7km²
Upstream area
15 638km²
Discharge
161,26m³/s
Mean elev.
690m
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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
686mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
258mm/an
PET
2 028mm
AET
577mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
390cm
Forest
18%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)