HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080959660
Bassin de Bilate River
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 : Borena, Sidama, Wolayita
Sub-basin area
208,6km²
Upstream area
5 397,4km²
Discharge
45,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 279m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bilate River382 km²
- Bassin de Badessa River104 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 112.3 km²54.0% of basin
- 88.0 km²42.3% of basin
- 7.5 km²3.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Loka-Abaya
IUCN IINational Park
72.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
833mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
240mm/an
PET
1 852mm
AET
705mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
200cm
Forest
0%
Crops
21%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)