HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080843950
Bassin · #1080843950
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 : Kelem Wellega, Mirab Welega
Sub-basin area
1 355,3km²
Upstream area
2 797km²
Discharge
36,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 539m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080846990735 km²
- Bassin · #1080847210707 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 783.6 km²58.1% of basin
- 566.1 km²41.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Dhati-Welel
IUCN IINational Park
45.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
1 496mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
386mm/an
PET
1 660mm
AET
1 025mm
Mean slope
5,2°
Water table
305cm
Forest
12%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)