HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081192210
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 4 administrative regions : Kibwezi West, Kitui Rural, Kitui South, Makueni
Sub-basin area
740,4km²
Upstream area
10 934,9km²
Discharge
36,3m³/s
Mean elev.
910m
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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
670mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
135mm/an
PET
1 806mm
AET
564mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
367cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)