Ontologia

HydroLAKES lake · #180479

Lake Turkana

Natural lakeEthiopiaAfrica 363 m

Surface area

2,73km²

Avg depth

1,3m

Volume

3,66km³

Shoreline

7,8km

Administrative coverage

Parent watershed

hybas-10810319902605 km² · upstream 2605 km²

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Debub Omo
    Southern Nations, Nationalities · Ethiopia
    2.72 km²
    100.0% of lake

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Murule

    IUCN VI

    Controlled Hunting Area

    0.46 km² overlap

Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 distinct species · 3 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 3
3–2
3–2
3–2
< 3

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

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)

Surface

2,73km²

Avg depth

1,3m

Volume

3,660km³

Watershed

1 988km²

Shoreline

7,8km

Shore dev. idx

1,33

Residence time

12days

Elevation

363m

HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.