HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080801450
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
531,5km²
Upstream area
42 360,3km²
Discharge
448,67m³/s
Mean elev.
1 868m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay803 km²
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay7 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 382.5 km²72.3% of basin
- 146.9 km²27.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 55 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
978mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
282mm/an
PET
1 693mm
AET
789mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
664cm
Forest
0%
Crops
28%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)