HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080757370
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
296km²
Upstream area
52 282,5km²
Discharge
106,85m³/s
Mean elev.
484m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de water way1544 km²
- Bassin de Awash720 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 294.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mille-Serdo
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
294.85 km² overlap
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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
239mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 956mm
AET
199mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
449cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)