HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081020080
Bassin de Webi Shabeelle
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 across 2 countries : Afder, Beled Weyn, Shabelle
Sub-basin area
382,7km²
Upstream area
192 021km²
Discharge
178,41m³/s
Mean elev.
228m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Webi Shabeelle1268 km²
- Bassin de Webi Shabeelle12 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 291.2 km²76.4% of basin
- 60.3 km²15.8% of basin
- 29.5 km²7.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 17 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°
28,6°C
Annual rain
260mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
53mm/an
PET
2 012mm
AET
216mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
229cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)