HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080884670
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 4 administrative regions : Addis Abeba, Debub Mirab Shewa, Gurage, Misraq Shewa
Sub-basin area
2 257,4km²
Upstream area
8 942,7km²
Discharge
63,45m³/s
Mean elev.
1 864m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Great Akaki River1682 km²
- Bassin de Awash502 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1753.3 km²78.0% of basin
- 423.2 km²18.8% of basin
- 69.1 km²3.1% of basin
- Addis AbebaAddis Abeba · Ethiopia2.3 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
917 distinct species · 10 581 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 : 17 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
19,0°C
Annual rain
930mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
222mm/an
PET
1 716mm
AET
785mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
229cm
Forest
0%
Crops
32%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)