HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080774200
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 3 administrative regions : Debub Gondar, Debub Wollo, Misraq Gojjam
Sub-basin area
299,4km²
Upstream area
24 702,8km²
Discharge
323,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 922m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay589 km²
- Bassin · #1080771480465 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 189.7 km²63.6% of basin
- 108.5 km²36.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
19,2°C
Annual rain
1 074mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
279mm/an
PET
1 721mm
AET
829mm
Mean slope
19,0°
Water table
828cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)