HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080838790
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, North Shewa
Sub-basin area
657,7km²
Upstream area
657,8km²
Discharge
1,57m³/s
Mean elev.
997m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 621.6 km²94.9% of basin
- 33.5 km²5.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Awash West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
452.15 km² overlap
Asbari-Dullessa
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
96.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
67 distinct species · 82 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 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 Awash : 13 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
749mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
2 017mm
AET
632mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
262cm
Forest
0%
Crops
28%
Urban
0%
Protected
69%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)