HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080805400
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 3 administrative regions : Horo Guduru, Mirab Gojjam, Misraq Gojjam
Sub-basin area
1 399,3km²
Upstream area
89 747,8km²
Discharge
922,31m³/s
Mean elev.
1 633m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 916.7 km²65.8% of basin
- 476.9 km²34.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 24 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
1 330mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
401mm/an
PET
1 751mm
AET
933mm
Mean slope
11,2°
Water table
534cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)