HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081176700
Bassin de Mbagathi 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 9 administrative regions : Dagoretti South, Embakasi East, Embakasi South, Kajiado East, Kajiado North +4
Sub-basin area
771,7km²
Upstream area
771,7km²
Discharge
0,86m³/s
Mean elev.
1 728m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,4°C
Annual rain
763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
78mm/an
PET
1 556mm
AET
645mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
253cm
Forest
4%
Crops
22%
Urban
22%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)