HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080005340
Bassin · #1080005340
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 4 administrative regions : Baki, Berbera, Gabiley, Hargeysa
Sub-basin area
462,9km²
Upstream area
3 876,5km²
Discharge
3,42m³/s
Mean elev.
391m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080810680313 km²
- Bassin · #1080810360156 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 266.4 km²57.8% of basin
- 102.9 km²22.3% of basin
- 77.5 km²16.8% of basin
- 14.0 km²3.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,8°C
Annual rain
129mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 800mm
AET
106mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
815cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)