HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080909290
Bassin de Gilgel Gibe
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 : Jimma
Sub-basin area
416,7km²
Upstream area
3 123km²
Discharge
46,9m³/s
Mean elev.
1 844m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080913130533 km²
- Bassin de Gilgel Gibe390 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
105 distinct species · 218 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Gilgel Gibe : 18 espèces reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,2°C
Annual rain
1 490mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
626mm/an
PET
1 771mm
AET
1 112mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
315cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
15%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)