HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080770770
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
73km²
Upstream area
48 485,3km²
Discharge
97,84m³/s
Mean elev.
553m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Awash388 km²
- Bassin de Awash364 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 42.3 km²58.2% of basin
- 30.4 km²41.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Yangudi Rassa
IUCN IINational Park
58.86 km² overlap
Awash West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
13.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
352mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
1 977mm
AET
295mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
555cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)