World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · ken
Lake Turkana National Parks
- Area
- 1 535 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1997
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1997
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
313 distinct species · 887 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Lake Turkana National Parks : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology16 basins · 2 lakes · 0 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Lake surface here
66,96km²
Basins crossed
16
Max drainage
101 061km²
Discharge in basins
410,7m³/s
Mean precip.
252mm/an
Mean T°
28,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,87
Mean runoff
49mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
473m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #49270sub-area689,4 km²overlap440.34 km²29%
- Basin #48770sub-area647,2 km²overlap228.03 km²15%
- Basin #46540sub-area232,5 km²overlap170.21 km²11%
- Bassin de Laga Tulu Borsub-area748,5 km²overlap120.05 km²8%
- Basin #50670sub-area116,3 km²overlap108.36 km²7%
- Basin #55100sub-area470,5 km²overlap78.04 km²5%
- Basin #46700sub-area120,5 km²overlap71.51 km²5%
- Basin #48620sub-area68,3 km²overlap68.05 km²4%
- Basin #50910sub-area664,8 km²overlap65.37 km²4%
7 more basinssorted by overlap
- Basin #41800sub-area471,4 km²overlap63.69 km²4%
- Basin #77480sub-area1 214,1 km²overlap51.71 km²3%
- Basin #74870sub-area1 202,2 km²overlap34.10 km²2%
- Basin #56550sub-area437,1 km²overlap25.07 km²2%
- Basin #56460sub-area59,6 km²overlap6.29 km²0%
- Basin #59910sub-area651,9 km²overlap4.36 km²0%
- Bassin de Il Erietsub-area1 084,4 km²overlap0.07 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 3.93173, 36.33055
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.