HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080792400
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 Wollo, Misraq Gojjam
Sub-basin area
44,1km²
Upstream area
40 193,8km²
Discharge
432,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 562m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gilgel Chey1278 km²
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay1255 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.1 km²66.3% of basin
- 14.8 km²33.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
937mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
288mm/an
PET
1 794mm
AET
775mm
Mean slope
16,9°
Water table
786cm
Forest
0%
Crops
32%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)