HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081184690
Bassin de Athi 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 : Juja, Kangundo, Kitui Rural, Makueni, Matungulu +4
Sub-basin area
1 701,6km²
Upstream area
7 291,6km²
Discharge
23,33m³/s
Mean elev.
1 246m
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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
810mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
1 803mm
AET
684mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
344cm
Forest
6%
Crops
6%
Urban
8%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)