HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081023870
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
420,8km²
Upstream area
420,9km²
Discharge
0,65m³/s
Mean elev.
997m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 418.9 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Borena
IUCN IINational Park
395.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
481mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
46mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
404mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
394cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)