HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080805160
Bassin de Birr
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 : Mirab Gojjam, Misraq Gojjam
Sub-basin area
104,5km²
Upstream area
5 521,9km²
Discharge
57,28m³/s
Mean elev.
1 359m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Jedeb2224 km²
- Bassin de Birr679 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 79.3 km²76.2% of basin
- 24.8 km²23.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 7 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
1 333mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
365mm/an
PET
1 827mm
AET
944mm
Mean slope
12,0°
Water table
542cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)