HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080964960
Bassin de Bilaatte Shaafaa
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
387,1km²
Upstream area
9 275,9km²
Discharge
61,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gidabo376 km²
- Bassin de Bilate River209 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 340.1 km²88.2% of basin
- 33.4 km²8.7% of basin
- 11.9 km²3.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Loka-Abaya
IUCN IINational Park
0.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 50 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
727mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
226mm/an
PET
1 889mm
AET
613mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
71cm
Forest
2%
Crops
21%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)