HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080834600
Bassin de Didessa
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 1 administrative regions : Kemashi
Sub-basin area
441,5km²
Upstream area
18 065,5km²
Discharge
269,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 094m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Didessa1941 km²
- Bassin de Dimtu1086 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 439.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Deddessa
IUCN IINational Park
327.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 8 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
1 400mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
494mm/an
PET
1 850mm
AET
1 005mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
389cm
Forest
55%
Crops
13%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)