HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080705700
Bassin · #1080705700
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 1 administrative regions : Afar Zone 4
Sub-basin area
1 569,2km²
Upstream area
5 296,9km²
Discharge
25,03m³/s
Mean elev.
581m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10807293801820 km²
- Bassin · #1080729540419 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1563.2 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 15 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
363mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
2 036mm
AET
304mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
371cm
Forest
1%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)