HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081188520
Bassin · #1081188520
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 : Lamu East, Lamu West
Sub-basin area
136km²
Upstream area
9 273,2km²
Discharge
8,6m³/s
Mean elev.
18m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10811873701827 km²
- Bassin · #1081187360235 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 96.0 km²70.9% of basin
- 36.7 km²27.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mangrove Swamps
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
9.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 28 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,0°C
Annual rain
792mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
161mm/an
PET
1 509mm
AET
670mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
40cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)