HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080041290
Bassin · #1080041290
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 1 administrative regions : Afar Zone 3
Sub-basin area
5,3km²
Upstream area
12 871,8km²
Discharge
16,78m³/s
Mean elev.
594m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10808054301593 km²
- Bassin · #1080805790581 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 5.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gewane
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
3.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
412mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
54mm/an
PET
1 946mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
362cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)