HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080818490
Bassin de Awash
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 1 administrative regions : Afar Zone 3
Sub-basin area
360,3km²
Upstream area
360,4km²
Discharge
0,26m³/s
Mean elev.
756m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 358.8 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Afdem-Gewane
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
195.04 km² overlap
Awash West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
163.79 km² overlap
Bilen-Hertale
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
104.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
159 distinct species · 238 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Awash : 15 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,0°C
Annual rain
555mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
25mm/an
PET
1 993mm
AET
467mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
414cm
Forest
0%
Crops
30%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)