HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081184060
Bassin de River Kaiti
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 5 administrative regions : Kaiti, Kilome, Machakos Town, Makueni, Mbooni
Sub-basin area
714,5km²
Upstream area
714,7km²
Discharge
2,8m³/s
Mean elev.
1 435m
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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
930mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
123mm/an
PET
1 677mm
AET
788mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
471cm
Forest
18%
Crops
8%
Urban
6%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)