HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080809120
Bassin · #1080809120
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 4 administrative regions : Berbera, Burao, Caynabo, Sheekh
Sub-basin area
803,9km²
Upstream area
804,2km²
Discharge
1,74m³/s
Mean elev.
788m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 491.9 km²61.4% of basin
- 210.6 km²26.3% of basin
- 95.4 km²11.9% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
147mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
61mm/an
PET
1 757mm
AET
122mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
871cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)