HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080896900
Bassin de Shebelle
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 : Bale, Mirab Hararghe
Sub-basin area
914,2km²
Upstream area
20 806,2km²
Discharge
75,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 331m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hulul2006 km²
- Bassin de Shebelle130 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 648.9 km²71.3% of basin
- 261.4 km²28.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
764mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
1 846mm
AET
644mm
Mean slope
11,3°
Water table
637cm
Forest
1%
Crops
14%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)