HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081155590
Bassin de Kipsonoi
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 15 administrative regions : Bomet Central, Borabu, Bureti, Chepalungu, Emurua Dikirr +10
Sub-basin area
1 576,6km²
Upstream area
1 576,6km²
Discharge
13,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 974m
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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
1 455mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
288mm/an
PET
1 663mm
AET
1 228mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
250cm
Forest
6%
Crops
26%
Urban
44%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)