HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080692900
Bassin de Meshesha Wenz
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 : Semen Gondar, Wag Himra
Sub-basin area
1 062,1km²
Upstream area
21 316,3km²
Discharge
120,01m³/s
Mean elev.
2 175m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mai Tella2050 km²
- Bassin de Meshesha Wenz794 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 677.9 km²64.1% of basin
- 380.2 km²35.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Simien Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
65.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 26 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
812mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
124mm/an
PET
1 750mm
AET
642mm
Mean slope
16,9°
Water table
868cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)