HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080777330
Bassin de Cheleleka
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 5 administrative regions : Afar Zone 3, Afar Zone 5, Argoba, Debub Wollo, Oromia
Sub-basin area
1 807,9km²
Upstream area
1 808,1km²
Discharge
9,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 482m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 615.1 km²34.2% of basin
- 528.3 km²29.3% of basin
- 347.7 km²19.3% of basin
- 309.6 km²17.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Awash West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
692.74 km² overlap
Telalak Dewe
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
274.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
103 distinct species · 177 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Cheleleka : 18 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,4°C
Annual rain
883mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
152mm/an
PET
1 829mm
AET
747mm
Mean slope
10,4°
Water table
578cm
Forest
0%
Crops
29%
Urban
3%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)