HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080830320
Bassin de Melka River
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
388,2km²
Upstream area
388,4km²
Discharge
1,07m³/s
Mean elev.
1 431m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dire DawaDire Dawa · Ethiopia205.4 km²53.1% of basin
- 121.0 km²31.3% of basin
- 60.2 km²15.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
377 distinct species · 936 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Melka River : 28 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,6°C
Annual rain
711mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 747mm
AET
601mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
484cm
Forest
0%
Crops
20%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)