HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080591490
Bassin · #1080591490
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 3 administrative regions : Al Gash, Kassala, Nahr Atbara
Sub-basin area
1 126,7km²
Upstream area
1 126,7km²
Discharge
0,27m³/s
Mean elev.
467m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nahr AtbaraKassala · Sudan724.9 km²64.6% of basin
- 272.5 km²24.3% of basin
- KassalaKassala · Sudan125.4 km²11.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 27 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°
28,9°C
Annual rain
248mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
2 276mm
AET
206mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
29cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)