HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080810830
Bassin · #1080810830
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
1 405,5km²
Upstream area
7 747,8km²
Discharge
6,78m³/s
Mean elev.
781m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10808223602041 km²
- Bassin · #1080822190810 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1145.2 km²81.8% of basin
- 254.6 km²18.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Erer-Gota
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
740.88 km² overlap
Afdem-Gewane
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
583.34 km² overlap
Gewane
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
16.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 36 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
502mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
1 941mm
AET
423mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
298cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)