HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080771500
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 3, Afar Zone 5
Sub-basin area
363,9km²
Upstream area
363,9km²
Discharge
0,89m³/s
Mean elev.
632m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 238.2 km²65.7% of basin
- 124.2 km²34.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Yangudi Rassa
IUCN IINational Park
362.44 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
421mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
75mm/an
PET
1 969mm
AET
354mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
573cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)