Forest Reserve · ken
Mount Kenya
- Area
- 1 987 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 1943
Overview
- Designation
- Forest Reserve
- Established
- 1943
- Managing authority
- Kenya Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 204 distinct species · 80 795 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydrology12 basins · 0 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
226,2km
Basins crossed
12
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
13 349km²
Discharge in basins
24,9m³/s
Mean precip.
1 242mm/an
Mean T°
17,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,25
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
297mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 817m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Maara Riversub-area1 938,9 km²overlap531.19 km²27%
- Bassin de Thiba Riversub-area2 030,6 km²overlap403.34 km²20%
- Bassin de Nanyukisub-area1 208,7 km²overlap246.77 km²12%
- Bassin de Sagana Riversub-area512,9 km²overlap241.10 km²12%
- Bassin de Kazitasub-area1 845,7 km²overlap163.28 km²8%
- Bassin de Burguretsub-area317,7 km²overlap153.77 km²8%
- Bassin de Ragati Riversub-area781,6 km²overlap125.22 km²6%
- Bassin de Isiolosub-area937,9 km²overlap43.42 km²2%
- Bassin de Naro Morusub-area239,8 km²overlap39.29 km²2%
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Rupingaziord 4len here26.04 km27%total98 km
- Burguretord 3len here25.51 km48%total54 km
- Ragati Riverord 4len here22.04 km22%total99 km
- Kazitaord 3len here21.85 km35%total63 km
- Ontuliliord 3len here18.98 km41%total46 km
- Nanyukiord 4len here18.59 km16%total119 km
- Thiba Riverord 5len here18.26 km12%total147 km
- Likiiord 2len here17.26 km66%total26 km
- Naro Moruord 3len here16.16 km29%total56 km
- East Maraniaord 2len here13.82 km32%total43 km
- Sirimonord 2len here12.95 km31%total42 km
- Thingithuord 2len here9.65 km18%total54 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
- -0.16948, 37.49041
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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.