HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080935580
Bassin · #1080935580
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, Mirab Arsi
Sub-basin area
309,6km²
Upstream area
2 713,4km²
Discharge
12,71m³/s
Mean elev.
2 652m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10809368401863 km²
- Bassin · #1080936650541 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 291.7 km²94.6% of basin
- 16.5 km²5.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Arsi Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
259.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 222 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°
13,6°C
Annual rain
911mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
148mm/an
PET
1 453mm
AET
757mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
150cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
2%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)