HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080828730
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 2 administrative regions : Afar Zone 3, Afar Zone 5
Sub-basin area
626,8km²
Upstream area
30 213,9km²
Discharge
85,51m³/s
Mean elev.
765m
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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
572mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
2 077mm
AET
482mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
218cm
Forest
0%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)