HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080769850
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Afar Zone 1, As Eyla, Yuboki
Sub-basin area
838,7km²
Upstream area
69 788,4km²
Discharge
155,61m³/s
Mean elev.
389m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Awash2221 km²
- Bassin · #10807636101589 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 616.2 km²73.8% of basin
- 215.9 km²25.8% of basin
- 3.3 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
28,8°C
Annual rain
179mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
1 890mm
AET
148mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
462cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)