HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080686980
Bassin de ተከዜ ወንዝ
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 : Mehakelegnaw, Semen Gondar, Wag Himra
Sub-basin area
299,5km²
Upstream area
299,5km²
Discharge
1,15m³/s
Mean elev.
2 188m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 283.8 km²95.1% of basin
- 14.6 km²4.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Simien Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
19.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 11 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
800mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
122mm/an
PET
1 747mm
AET
643mm
Mean slope
20,1°
Water table
851cm
Forest
2%
Crops
14%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)