HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080981330
Bassin de Ganale
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 : Bale, Guji, Mirab Arsi
Sub-basin area
1 510,2km²
Upstream area
1 510,5km²
Discharge
5,02m³/s
Mean elev.
2 052m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 855.7 km²56.9% of basin
- 440.5 km²29.3% of basin
- 207.4 km²13.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Hurufa Soma
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
225.62 km² overlap
Adaba-Dodola
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
8.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 13 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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
1 028mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
106mm/an
PET
1 666mm
AET
870mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
571cm
Forest
24%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)