HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080793430
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
7,3km²
Upstream area
41 026,6km²
Discharge
439,05m³/s
Mean elev.
1 332m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay826 km²
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay44 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 5.4 km²74.7% of basin
- 1.8 km²25.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
870mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
287mm/an
PET
1 865mm
AET
738mm
Mean slope
14,4°
Water table
955cm
Forest
0%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)