HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080864440
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, Arsi, Misraq Shewa
Sub-basin area
726,1km²
Upstream area
16 711,8km²
Discharge
65,13m³/s
Mean elev.
1 160m
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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
641mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
1 982mm
AET
540mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
440cm
Forest
2%
Crops
20%
Urban
3%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)