HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080921610
Bassin de Wabe 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 2 administrative regions : Arsi, Bale
Sub-basin area
884,8km²
Upstream area
6 456,6km²
Discharge
26,73m³/s
Mean elev.
2 147m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wabe Shebelle1077 km²
- Bassin de Wabe Shebelle332 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 462.8 km²52.5% of basin
- 418.2 km²47.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Arsi Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
275.68 km² overlap
Gassera Wabe
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
56.66 km² overlap
Hanto
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
52.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 95 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°
16,8°C
Annual rain
996mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
147mm/an
PET
1 590mm
AET
839mm
Mean slope
12,6°
Water table
569cm
Forest
0%
Crops
20%
Urban
1%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)