HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081164400
Bassin de Chania 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 13 administrative regions : Gatanga, Gatundu North, Gatundu South, Juja, Kandara +8
Sub-basin area
1 909,3km²
Upstream area
1 909,3km²
Discharge
20,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 730m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
17,9°C
Annual rain
1 184mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
232mm/an
PET
1 684mm
AET
904mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
230cm
Forest
53%
Crops
4%
Urban
17%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)