HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080851060
Bassin de Germama/kesem
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, Misraq Shewa, North Shewa
Sub-basin area
1 354,8km²
Upstream area
3 457,8km²
Discharge
13,67m³/s
Mean elev.
1 343m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080857570208 km²
- Bassin de Germama/kesem87 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 768.2 km²56.9% of basin
- 408.3 km²30.3% of basin
- 172.7 km²12.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Awash-West
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
334.98 km² overlap
Awash
IUCN IINational Park
119.89 km² overlap
Awash West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
86.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
314 distinct species · 997 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Germama/kesem : 24 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
722mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
62mm/an
PET
1 927mm
AET
607mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
525cm
Forest
0%
Crops
27%
Urban
2%
Protected
33%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)