HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080876480
Bassin de Tunjo
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 : Jimma, Mirab Shewa
Sub-basin area
1 515,9km²
Upstream area
2 424,7km²
Discharge
53,36m³/s
Mean elev.
1 811m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tunjo659 km²
- Bassin de Tunjo250 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1508.4 km²99.9% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 64 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
1 709mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
684mm/an
PET
1 788mm
AET
1 143mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
325cm
Forest
4%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)