HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081193150
Bassin · #1081193150
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 : Garsen, Kitui South
Sub-basin area
671,4km²
Upstream area
7 525,9km²
Discharge
27,11m³/s
Mean elev.
287m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tiva2667 km²
- Bassin · #10811968101329 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 624.3 km²93.4% of basin
- 44.2 km²6.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tsavo East
IUCN IINational Park
427.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 15 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
677mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
1 822mm
AET
571mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
19cm
Forest
2%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
61%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)