Ontologia

HydroLAKES lake · #158

Turkana

Natural lakeKenyaAfrica 361 m

Surface area

7 473,43km²

Avg depth

31,8m

Volume

238 000km³

Shoreline

1 024,9km

Administrative coverage

Parent watershed

hybas-1081059910652 km² · upstream 101061 km²

7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Laisamis
    Marsabit · Kenya
    2595.16 km²
    34.9% of lake
  • North Horr
    Marsabit · Kenya
    2368.50 km²
    31.8% of lake
  • Turkana North
    Turkana · Kenya
    1442.76 km²
    19.4% of lake
  • Turkana Central
    Turkana · Kenya
    833.01 km²
    11.2% of lake
  • Debub Omo
    Southern Nations, Nationalities · Ethiopia
    194.25 km²
    2.6% of lake
  • Turkana East
    Turkana · Kenya
    6.64 km²
    0.1% of lake

6 intersecting protected areas

Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

546 distinct species · 3 832 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 832 obs · 81 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 846
156–845
15–155
4–14
< 4

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 27 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Turkana : 21 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
30
Interactions affichées
35
Connectance
0.081
Patrimoniales
0
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)

Surface

7 473,43km²

Avg depth

31,8m

Volume

238 000,000km³

Watershed

149 329km²

Shoreline

1 024,9km

Shore dev. idx

3,34

Residence time

2 299days

Elevation

361m

HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.