HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080909280
Bassin · #1080909280
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 4 administrative regions : Ilubabor, Jimma, Keffa, Sheka
Sub-basin area
319,7km²
Upstream area
319,8km²
Discharge
4,93m³/s
Mean elev.
2 029m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 180.9 km²56.8% of basin
- 131.6 km²41.3% of basin
- 5.8 km²1.8% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kafa
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
82.11 km² overlap
Mizan-Teferi
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
4.91 km² overlap
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°
18,0°C
Annual rain
1 904mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
445mm/an
PET
1 567mm
AET
1 222mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
323cm
Forest
96%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)