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
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)