HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081196640
Bassin · #1081196640
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 : Kajiado South, Kibwezi East, Kibwezi West
Sub-basin area
620,2km²
Upstream area
620,2km²
Discharge
2,09m³/s
Mean elev.
1 028m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,3°C
Annual rain
671mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
95mm/an
PET
1 723mm
AET
567mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
275cm
Forest
54%
Crops
12%
Urban
1%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)