HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081020800
Bassin de Dawa
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 1 administrative regions : Liben
Sub-basin area
918,8km²
Upstream area
32 817,1km²
Discharge
92,84m³/s
Mean elev.
949m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dawa165 km²
- Bassin de Dawa4 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Borena
IUCN IINational Park
437.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 57 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
441mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 889mm
AET
370mm
Mean slope
12,1°
Water table
662cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
48%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)