HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080760860
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 2 administrative regions : Afar Zone 1, Afar Zone 3
Sub-basin area
720,4km²
Upstream area
50 442,8km²
Discharge
102,97m³/s
Mean elev.
497m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,2°C
Annual rain
307mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
79mm/an
PET
1 979mm
AET
257mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
198cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)