Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081186260

Bassin de Southern Ewaso Ng'iro

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 2 administrative regions : Kajiado West, Narok South

EndorheicPfafstetter: 11520555

Sub-basin area

510,1km²

Upstream area

7 250,4km²

Discharge

20,77m³/s

Mean elev.

1 376m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Southern Ewaso Ng'iro1243 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Loita

    IUCN Not Reported

    Community Forest Reserve

    84.79 km² overlap

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

Species present

366 distinct species · 2 021 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 021 obs · 11 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 1 439
303–1 438
42–302
5–41
< 5

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

Ecological tissue

Sample of 17 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.

ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Southern Ewaso Ng'iro : 15 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
17
Interactions affichées
12
Connectance
0.088
Patrimoniales
0
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

21,1°C

Annual rain

650mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,62

Runoff

88mm/an

PET

1 751mm

AET

549mm

Mean slope

8,2°

Water table

513cm

Forest

22%

Crops

6%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

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