Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081185770

Bassin · #1081185770

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 3 administrative regions : Fafi, Ijara, Lamu West

Pfafstetter: 11710843

Sub-basin area

376,4km²

Upstream area

3 397,4km²

Discharge

3,57m³/s

Mean elev.

52m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin · #1081187360235 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Boni Ijara

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    282.34 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 distinct species · 4 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

4 obs · 4 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1
1–0
1–0
1–0
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,1°C

Annual rain

630mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,62

Runoff

81mm/an

PET

1 644mm

AET

532mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

21cm

Forest

53%

Crops

4%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)