HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080761780
Bassin de Lesser Abay River
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 : Mirab Gojjam
Sub-basin area
499,7km²
Upstream area
499,7km²
Discharge
5,57m³/s
Mean elev.
2 302m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 497.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 33 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°
16,2°C
Annual rain
1 611mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
312mm/an
PET
1 563mm
AET
970mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
392cm
Forest
0%
Crops
19%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)