HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080940660
Bassin · #1080940660
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 1 administrative regions : Keffa
Sub-basin area
438,6km²
Upstream area
438,8km²
Discharge
4,02m³/s
Mean elev.
2 001m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 436.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kafa
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
105.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 8 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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
1 835mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
288mm/an
PET
1 634mm
AET
1 352mm
Mean slope
12,4°
Water table
436cm
Forest
68%
Crops
3%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)