HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080901700
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 3 administrative regions : Bale, Mirab Hararghe, Misraq Harerge
Sub-basin area
891,6km²
Upstream area
27 292,3km²
Discharge
86,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 246m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shebelle914 km²
- Bassin de Shebelle785 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 508.8 km²57.3% of basin
- 379.0 km²42.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 860mm
AET
560mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
719cm
Forest
0%
Crops
20%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)