HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080865510
Bassin de Awash River
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 : Arsi, Misraq Shewa
Sub-basin area
1 127,8km²
Upstream area
15 472,6km²
Discharge
67,65m³/s
Mean elev.
1 417m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Awash River539 km²
- Bassin de Awash River305 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 565.2 km²50.3% of basin
- 557.9 km²49.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Gara-Meti
IUCN VIOpen Hunting Area
108.76 km² overlap
Arsi Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
71.21 km² overlap
Awash-West
IUCN IVWildlife Reserve
28.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
672 distinct species · 1 356 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Awash River : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
722mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 884mm
AET
609mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
286cm
Forest
0%
Crops
27%
Urban
4%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)