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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080828720800 km²
- Bassin de Awash627 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 831.0 km²74.8% of basin
- 256.7 km²23.1% of basin
- 23.0 km²2.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Awash West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
1036.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
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)