HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080814620
Bassin de Wanchet
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 : North Shewa
Sub-basin area
543,6km²
Upstream area
4 201km²
Discharge
29,29m³/s
Mean elev.
1 681m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Jara726 km²
- Bassin de Wanchet439 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 280.4 km²51.8% of basin
- 261.0 km²48.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 25 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
877mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
266mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
738mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
592cm
Forest
0%
Crops
31%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)