National Reserve · ken
Mt. Kenya
- Area
- 2 120 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2000
Overview
- Designation
- National Reserve
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2000
- Managing authority
- Kenya Wildlife Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 315 distinct species · 81 540 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydrology13 basins · 0 lakes · 15 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
230,6km
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
13 349km²
Discharge in basins
26,4m³/s
Mean precip.
1 239mm/an
Mean T°
17,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,26
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
298mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 791m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Maara Riversub-area1 938,9 km²overlap537.48 km²25%
- Bassin de Thiba Riversub-area2 030,6 km²overlap403.40 km²19%
- Bassin de Kazitasub-area1 845,7 km²overlap274.38 km²13%
- Bassin de Nanyukisub-area1 208,7 km²overlap246.96 km²12%
- Bassin de Sagana Riversub-area512,9 km²overlap239.61 km²11%
- Bassin de Burguretsub-area317,7 km²overlap153.32 km²7%
- Bassin de Ragati Riversub-area781,6 km²overlap125.07 km²6%
- Bassin de Isiolosub-area937,9 km²overlap54.22 km²3%
- Bassin de Naro Morusub-area239,8 km²overlap39.31 km²2%
Rivers / streams (15, ord ≥ 4)
- Kazitaord 3len here26.52 km42%total63 km
- Rupingaziord 4len here26.09 km27%total98 km
- Burguretord 3len here25.45 km48%total54 km
- Ragati Riverord 4len here22.04 km22%total99 km
- Nanyukiord 4len here19.53 km16%total119 km
- Ontuliliord 3len here19.11 km42%total46 km
- Thiba Riverord 5len here18.25 km12%total147 km
- Likiiord 2len here17.29 km66%total26 km
- Naro Moruord 3len here16.38 km29%total56 km
- East Maraniaord 2len here14.56 km34%total43 km
- Sirimonord 2len here9.96 km24%total42 km
- Thingithuord 2len here9.79 km18%total54 km
3 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
- -0.13981, 37.49166
- 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.