HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080913480
Bassin de ጊቤ / 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 5 administrative regions : Gurage, Hadiya, Jimma, Silti, Yem
Sub-basin area
2 019,6km²
Upstream area
21 429km²
Discharge
406,59m³/s
Mean elev.
1 936m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ጊቤ / Gibe1180 km²
- Bassin de ጊቤ / Gibe221 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 880.7 km²43.8% of basin
- 786.0 km²39.1% of basin
- 191.3 km²9.5% of basin
- 106.2 km²5.3% of basin
- 46.8 km²2.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Gibe Sheleko
IUCN IINational Park
191.30 km² overlap
Abelti Gibie
IUCN Not ReportedNational Forest Priority Area
29.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
63 distinct species · 79 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 ጊቤ / Gibe : 9 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.8%, 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°
18,6°C
Annual rain
1 116mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
534mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
933mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
312cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
8%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)