HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080824890
Bassin · #1080824890
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 : Dire Dawa, Misraq Harerge, Siti
Sub-basin area
299km²
Upstream area
1 246,4km²
Discharge
3,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 309m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080824670314 km²
- Bassin · #108082491058 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dire DawaDire Dawa · Ethiopia116.7 km²39.2% of basin
- 104.9 km²35.2% of basin
- 76.1 km²25.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
604mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
92mm/an
PET
1 765mm
AET
511mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
445cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)