HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080937160
Bassin de 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 : Bale, Nogob, Shabelle
Sub-basin area
469,6km²
Upstream area
79 438,3km²
Discharge
169,21m³/s
Mean elev.
620m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080931140239 km²
- Bassin de Shebelle27 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 351.5 km²75.2% of basin
- 61.0 km²13.1% of basin
- 55.1 km²11.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Controlled Hunting Area
376.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
316mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
2 063mm
AET
263mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
488cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
81%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)