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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
15 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 417.1 km²26.6% of basin
- 254.2 km²16.2% of basin
- 250.8 km²16.0% of basin
- 188.5 km²12.0% of basin
- 175.1 km²11.2% of basin
- 90.0 km²5.7% of basin
- 88.5 km²5.6% of basin
- 32.6 km²2.1% of basin
7 moreFull L2 list
- Kuresoi North28.4 km² · 1.8%
- Narok South22.4 km² · 1.4%
- North Mugirango13.6 km² · 0.9%
- Molo7.1 km² · 0.5%
- West Mugirango0.9 km² · 0.1%
- Emurua Dikirr0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Kitutu Masaba0.0 km² · 0.0%
4 intersecting protected areas
South West Mau
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
165.72 km² overlap
Transmara
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
19.64 km² overlap
Eastern Mau
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
8.18 km² overlap
Chepalungu
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
4.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
796 distinct species · 2 840 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Kipsonoi : 34 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
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)