HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080923500
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 3 administrative regions : Arsi, Bale, Mirab Arsi
Sub-basin area
1 076,7km²
Upstream area
5 239,4km²
Discharge
21,09m³/s
Mean elev.
2 579m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080934660404 km²
- Bassin · #10809350005 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 621.5 km²58.0% of basin
- 395.9 km²36.9% of basin
- 54.7 km²5.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Arsi Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
304.91 km² overlap
Hanto
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
38.05 km² overlap
Bale Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
0.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
292 distinct species · 1 234 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Wabe Shebelle : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (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°
14,1°C
Annual rain
960mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
132mm/an
PET
1 480mm
AET
810mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
506cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
1%
Protected
82%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)