HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080771640
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 2 administrative regions : Debub Gondar, Misraq Gojjam
Sub-basin area
588,7km²
Upstream area
23 938,4km²
Discharge
316,49m³/s
Mean elev.
2 020m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay629 km²
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay40 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 492.3 km²84.0% of basin
- 94.1 km²16.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 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°
18,7°C
Annual rain
1 153mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
296mm/an
PET
1 691mm
AET
849mm
Mean slope
17,8°
Water table
730cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)