HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080046130
Bassin · #1080046130
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 2 administrative regions : Afar Zone 1, Afar Zone 4
Sub-basin area
2 172,5km²
Upstream area
2 172,8km²
Discharge
0,55m³/s
Mean elev.
490m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2153.3 km²99.5% of basin
- 10.9 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mille-Serdo
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
1336.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 55 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
226mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
60mm/an
PET
1 945mm
AET
188mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
468cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
62%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)