HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080777530
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 3, Afar Zone 5, Oromia
Sub-basin area
1 875,6km²
Upstream area
44 720,2km²
Discharge
83,79m³/s
Mean elev.
867m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Awash703 km²
- Bassin de ቦርከና ወንዝ166 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 779.0 km²41.7% of basin
- 761.6 km²40.8% of basin
- 327.6 km²17.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Awash West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
965.54 km² overlap
Gewane
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
307.89 km² overlap
Yangudi Rassa
IUCN IINational Park
296.92 km² overlap
Telalak Dewe
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
11.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
87 distinct species · 137 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Awash : 9 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,5°C
Annual rain
608mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 941mm
AET
513mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
451cm
Forest
0%
Crops
21%
Urban
1%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)