HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080886420
Bassin de Gibe
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
687,9km²
Upstream area
6 763km²
Discharge
133,3m³/s
Mean elev.
1 806m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tunjo1516 km²
- Bassin de Mara605 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 484.9 km²70.8% of basin
- 200.2 km²29.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Jibat
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
73.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
45 distinct species · 81 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
1 412mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
643mm/an
PET
1 764mm
AET
1 053mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
339cm
Forest
2%
Crops
4%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)