HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080750840
Bassin de Awash
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 1
Sub-basin area
1 269,8km²
Upstream area
64 269,6km²
Discharge
138,3m³/s
Mean elev.
439m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ሎግያ ወንዝ675 km²
- Bassin de Awash239 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1264.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mille-Serdo
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
734.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
84 distinct species · 174 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Awash : 23 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,0°C
Annual rain
200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
1 945mm
AET
166mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
276cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)