HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080591500
Bassin · #1080591500
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
992,4km²
Upstream area
992,4km²
Discharge
0,31m³/s
Mean elev.
460m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 743.6 km²75.2% of basin
- KassalaKassala · Sudan135.3 km²13.7% of basin
- Nahr AtbaraKassala · Sudan110.1 km²11.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 12 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
226mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
2 274mm
AET
187mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
19cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)