HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080767540
Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay
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 3 administrative regions : Debub Gondar, Mirab Gojjam, Misraq Gojjam
Sub-basin area
358km²
Upstream area
20 501,3km²
Discharge
281,7m³/s
Mean elev.
2 037m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Avia1811 km²
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay157 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 238.4 km²66.8% of basin
- 118.2 km²33.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 25 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°
18,6°C
Annual rain
1 290mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
326mm/an
PET
1 698mm
AET
885mm
Mean slope
12,3°
Water table
602cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)