HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080924560
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 3 administrative regions : Hadiya, Jimma, Yem
Sub-basin area
908,3km²
Upstream area
22 921,8km²
Discharge
437,87m³/s
Mean elev.
1 790m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ጊቤ / Gibe2020 km²
- Bassin de ጊቤ / Gibe584 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 381.1 km²42.1% of basin
- 262.0 km²29.0% of basin
- 261.3 km²28.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
199 distinct species · 442 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
1 282mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
561mm/an
PET
1 758mm
AET
1 038mm
Mean slope
11,9°
Water table
422cm
Forest
0%
Crops
18%
Urban
11%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)