Ontologia

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

EndorheicPfafstetter: 11571731

Sub-basin area

720,4km²

Upstream area

50 442,8km²

Discharge

102,97m³/s

Mean elev.

497m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Awash296 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

4 intersecting protected areas

  • Mille-Serdo

    IUCN IV

    Wildlife Reserve

    462.90 km² overlap

  • Yangudi Rassa

    IUCN II

    National Park

    254.48 km² overlap

  • Hadar

    IUCN VI

    Controlled Hunting Area

    5.54 km² overlap

  • Awash West

    IUCN VI

    Controlled Hunting Area

    0.12 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

32 distinct species · 56 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

56 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 54
54–53
54–53
54–53
< 54

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

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)