National Park · ken
Tsavo West
- Area
- 7 024 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1948
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1948
- Managing authority
- Kenya Wildlife Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 476 distinct species · 132 997 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Tsavo West : 10 espèces + 0 bulles famille, 6 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology24 basins · 1 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
385,4km
Lake surface here
7,79km²
Basins crossed
24
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
31 702km²
Discharge in basins
150,8m³/s
Mean precip.
734mm/an
Mean T°
22,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,56
Mean runoff
106mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
863m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Tsavo Riversub-area1 093,8 km²overlap1071.50 km²15%
- Bassin de Mokoinesub-area1 945,6 km²overlap796.08 km²11%
- Bassin de Tsavo Riversub-area1 069,1 km²overlap712.24 km²10%
- Basin #21700sub-area1 541 km²overlap666.58 km²9%
- Basin #25870sub-area936,2 km²overlap517.69 km²7%
- Basin #25760sub-area412,2 km²overlap410.40 km²6%
- Bassin de Athi-Galana-Sabaki riversub-area337,6 km²overlap336.14 km²5%
- Bassin de Lumisub-area1 068,4 km²overlap297.67 km²4%
- Bassin de Athi-Galana-Sabaki riversub-area384 km²overlap276.03 km²4%
15 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Kisimasub-area565,8 km²overlap263.21 km²4%
- Basin #33140sub-area730,6 km²overlap260.29 km²4%
- Basin #27170sub-area256,4 km²overlap255.23 km²4%
- Bassin de Umbasub-area1 825,3 km²overlap205.62 km²3%
- Bassin de Mtito Andeisub-area483,5 km²overlap196.67 km²3%
- Basin #27130sub-area1 049,6 km²overlap185.44 km²3%
- Bassin de Athi-Galana-Sabaki riversub-area223,4 km²overlap150.87 km²2%
- Basin #10110sub-area885,8 km²overlap127.64 km²2%
- Bassin de Mwatatesub-area230,9 km²overlap124.93 km²2%
- Bassin de Mwatatesub-area130,8 km²overlap87.30 km²1%
- Bassin de Athi-Galana-Sabaki riversub-area161,4 km²overlap36.13 km²1%
- Bassin de Mbololosub-area556 km²overlap19.69 km²0%
- Bassin de Mwatatesub-area415,5 km²overlap14.86 km²0%
- Bassin de Mwatatesub-area13,9 km²overlap11.86 km²0%
- Bassin de Athi-Galana-Sabaki riversub-area129,1 km²overlap0.03 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Tsavo Riverord 5len here240.74 km95%total254 km
- Athi-Galana-Sabaki riverord 6len here53.26 km10%total544 km
- Mtito Andeiord 6len here31.67 km46%total69 km
- Kisimaord 3len here19.42 km39%total50 km
- Mwatateord 4len here17.57 km13%total136 km
- Mokoineord 4len here13.43 km21%total63 km
- Nadoo Olnjaniord 3len here6.27 km44%total14 km
- Sante riverord 2len here2.18 km65%total3 km
- Santeord 2len here0.85 km5%total17 km
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
- -3.41067, 37.95757
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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.