HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080820440
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 3 administrative regions : Mirab Shewa, Misraq Gojjam, North Shewa
Sub-basin area
59,2km²
Upstream area
66 626,1km²
Discharge
617,31m³/s
Mean elev.
1 273m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Getla702 km²
- Bassin de ዓባይ ወንዝ / Abay201 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 51.1 km²86.7% of basin
- 7.4 km²12.5% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.7% 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
934mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
380mm/an
PET
1 885mm
AET
778mm
Mean slope
12,9°
Water table
673cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)