HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080705560
Bassin · #1080705560
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 : Afar Zone 2, Afar Zone 4
Sub-basin area
264,6km²
Upstream area
6 676,2km²
Discharge
32,51m³/s
Mean elev.
791m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Agu Shet'1449 km²
- Bassin · #108070945021 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 154.4 km²58.6% of basin
- 109.1 km²41.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
420mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
217mm/an
PET
2 026mm
AET
353mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
472cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)