HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080896800
Bassin · #1080896800
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 1 administrative regions : Arsi
Sub-basin area
556,4km²
Upstream area
1 718km²
Discharge
5,91m³/s
Mean elev.
1 400m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080900060700 km²
- Bassin · #1080900240462 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Arsi Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
15.41 km² overlap
Arba Gugu
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
6.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
822mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
79mm/an
PET
1 849mm
AET
695mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
496cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)