HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080805430
Bassin · #1080805430
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 : Afar Zone 3, Siti
Sub-basin area
1 592,7km²
Upstream area
12 285,5km²
Discharge
15,74m³/s
Mean elev.
679m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10808108301406 km²
- Bassin · #1080811080177 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1090.0 km²68.7% of basin
- 496.3 km²31.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gewane
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
56.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
416mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
65mm/an
PET
1 924mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
488cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)