HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080801660
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, North Shewa
Sub-basin area
362,3km²
Upstream area
4 504,9km²
Discharge
33,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 712m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10808001901256 km²
- Bassin · #1080800630510 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 204.5 km²56.7% of basin
- 156.3 km²43.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
47 distinct species · 57 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
917mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
277mm/an
PET
1 733mm
AET
761mm
Mean slope
13,7°
Water table
667cm
Forest
0%
Crops
21%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)