HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080840150
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 3 administrative regions : Afar Zone 3, Mirab Hararghe, North Shewa
Sub-basin area
1 686,8km²
Upstream area
28 160,4km²
Discharge
85,1m³/s
Mean elev.
1 071m
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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
696mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
55mm/an
PET
2 007mm
AET
586mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
355cm
Forest
0%
Crops
30%
Urban
1%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)