HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080943050
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 2 administrative regions : Bale, Shabelle
Sub-basin area
391,1km²
Upstream area
80 376,1km²
Discharge
171,41m³/s
Mean elev.
564m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shebelle547 km²
- Bassin de Shebelle470 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 197.2 km²50.6% of basin
- 192.2 km²49.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Controlled Hunting Area
162.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
315mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
106mm/an
PET
2 071mm
AET
263mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
299cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)