HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081211840
Bassin de Tsavo 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 East, Taveta, Voi, Wundanyi
Sub-basin area
1 093,8km²
Upstream area
5 590,9km²
Discharge
22,42m³/s
Mean elev.
840m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mokoine1946 km²
- Bassin · #1081210110886 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 639.9 km²58.8% of basin
- 435.1 km²40.0% of basin
- Kibwezi EastMakueni · Kenya13.6 km²1.2% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Tsavo West
IUCN IINational Park
1071.50 km² overlap
Chyulu Hills
IUCN IINational Park
15.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
963 distinct species · 80 467 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Tsavo River : 10 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,0°C
Annual rain
636mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 723mm
AET
537mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
351cm
Forest
17%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)