Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081212040

Bassin de Kisima

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 : Mwatate, Taveta, Wundanyi

Pfafstetter: 11732402

Sub-basin area

565,8km²

Upstream area

566km²

Discharge

1,77m³/s

Mean elev.

960m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Tsavo River1069 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Tsavo West

    IUCN II

    National Park

    263.21 km² overlap

  • Lumo

    IUCN Not Reported

    Community Wildlife Sanctuary

    58.66 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

296 distinct species · 540 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

540 obs · 13 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 183
82–182
65–81
18–64
< 18

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 32 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kisima : 30 espèces dont 5 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
32
Interactions affichées
23
Connectance
0.046
Patrimoniales
5
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

22,3°C

Annual rain

733mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,56

Runoff

98mm/an

PET

1 666mm

AET

619mm

Mean slope

1,8°

Water table

289cm

Forest

0%

Crops

20%

Urban

0%

Protected

54%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)