HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080812830
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 2 administrative regions : Misraq Gojjam, North Shewa
Sub-basin area
5km²
Upstream area
64 074,2km²
Discharge
596,72m³/s
Mean elev.
1 257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gilgel Abay805 km²
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay141 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4.6 km²92.8% of basin
- 0.4 km²7.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
870mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
325mm/an
PET
1 892mm
AET
736mm
Mean slope
15,9°
Water table
672cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)