HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080850580
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 1 administrative regions : Afar Zone 3
Sub-basin area
3,2km²
Upstream area
3 744km²
Discharge
13,94m³/s
Mean elev.
755m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Germama/kesem1355 km²
- Bassin de Germama/kesem283 km²
- Bassin · #108008248011 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Awash West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
3.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 14 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
518mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
2 110mm
AET
435mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
23cm
Forest
73%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)