HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080904650
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 : Arsi, Bale, Mirab Hararghe
Sub-basin area
130km²
Upstream area
8 081,5km²
Discharge
23,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 272m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shebelle3456 km²
- Bassin de Shebelle188 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.8 km²62.4% of basin
- 46.9 km²36.3% of basin
- 1.7 km²1.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
75mm/an
PET
1 872mm
AET
643mm
Mean slope
16,8°
Water table
797cm
Forest
0%
Crops
18%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)