World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · ken
Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
- Area
- 1 976 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
2 371 distinct species · 30 721 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydrology11 basins · 2 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
148,4km
Lake surface here
0,32km²
Basins crossed
11
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
2 849km²
Discharge in basins
20,9m³/s
Mean precip.
1 190mm/an
Mean T°
17,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,29
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
277mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 783m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Maara Riversub-area1 938,9 km²overlap479.07 km²24%
- Bassin de Thiba Riversub-area2 030,6 km²overlap361.18 km²18%
- Bassin de Nanyukisub-area1 208,7 km²overlap335.63 km²17%
- Bassin de Kazitasub-area1 845,7 km²overlap198.28 km²10%
- Bassin de Ngare Ndaresub-area1 063,3 km²overlap192.23 km²10%
- Bassin de Sagana Riversub-area512,9 km²overlap130.00 km²7%
- Bassin de Isiolosub-area937,9 km²overlap119.83 km²6%
- Bassin de Burguretsub-area317,7 km²overlap55.91 km²3%
- Bassin de Ragati Riversub-area781,6 km²overlap51.70 km²3%
2 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Rupingaziord 4len here23.09 km24%total98 km
- Likiiord 2len here17.39 km67%total26 km
- Sirimonord 2len here17.33 km42%total42 km
- Naro Moruord 3len here14.19 km25%total56 km
- Thiba Riverord 5len here13.56 km9%total147 km
- Kazitaord 3len here11.49 km18%total63 km
- East Maraniaord 2len here11.04 km25%total43 km
- Ontuliliord 3len here9.80 km21%total46 km
- Nanyukiord 4len here9.78 km8%total119 km
- Burguretord 3len here7.65 km14%total54 km
- Ragati Riverord 4len here6.46 km7%total99 km
- Timauord 3len here3.47 km5%total70 km
2 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- -0.15733, 37.34786
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.