HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080892010
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 : Gurage, Jimma
Sub-basin area
301,3km²
Upstream area
15 999,8km²
Discharge
306m³/s
Mean elev.
1 461m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gilgel Gibe940 km²
- Bassin de Gilgel Gibe41 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 156.6 km²52.2% of basin
- 143.5 km²47.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gibe Sheleko
IUCN IINational Park
24.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
542 distinct species · 7 868 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Gibe : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 243mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
652mm/an
PET
1 841mm
AET
1 010mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
344cm
Forest
2%
Crops
9%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)