HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080957700
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 : Afder, Bale, Shabelle
Sub-basin area
1 711,9km²
Upstream area
89 657,3km²
Discharge
199,19m³/s
Mean elev.
684m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shebelle421 km²
- Bassin de Shebelle21 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1449.1 km²85.0% of basin
- 254.1 km²14.9% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Controlled Hunting Area
204.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 6 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
397mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
120mm/an
PET
2 027mm
AET
333mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
356cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)