HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080818770
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 3 administrative regions : Afar Zone 3, Afar Zone 5, North Shewa
Sub-basin area
1 115,3km²
Upstream area
32 129,4km²
Discharge
88,4m³/s
Mean elev.
830m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,9°C
Annual rain
711mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
2 013mm
AET
600mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
328cm
Forest
1%
Crops
23%
Urban
1%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)