HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080771490
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 : Afar Zone 1, Afar Zone 3, Afar Zone 5
Sub-basin area
388,2km²
Upstream area
48 048,2km²
Discharge
96,83m³/s
Mean elev.
579m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,4°C
Annual rain
401mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 990mm
AET
336mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
299cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)