HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081023750
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 2 administrative regions : Borena, Guji
Sub-basin area
16,2km²
Upstream area
28 205,9km²
Discharge
81,35m³/s
Mean elev.
765m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dawa421 km²
- Bassin de Dawa150 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 9.4 km²58.4% of basin
- 6.7 km²41.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Borena
IUCN IINational Park
1.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
424mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
63mm/an
PET
1 930mm
AET
356mm
Mean slope
7,6°
Water table
520cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
5%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)