HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080975270
Bassin de ኦሞ / Omo
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 : Bench Maji, Debub Omo, Keffa
Sub-basin area
416,9km²
Upstream area
53 986,5km²
Discharge
847,26m³/s
Mean elev.
551m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de ኦሞ / Omo1081 km²
- Bassin de ኦሞ / Omo638 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 226.9 km²54.7% of basin
- 187.3 km²45.1% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 10 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
965mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
329mm/an
PET
1 951mm
AET
815mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
168cm
Forest
3%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)