HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080653170
Bassin de Wadi el Gedab
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 : En Nuhud, Mellit, Sowdari
Sub-basin area
1 473,8km²
Upstream area
1 473,8km²
Discharge
0,98m³/s
Mean elev.
700m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1224.1 km²83.4% of basin
- 240.2 km²16.4% of basin
- 4.1 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 9 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
220mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
21mm/an
PET
2 114mm
AET
182mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
325cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)