HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081023960
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 3 administrative regions : Borena, Guji, Liben
Sub-basin area
1 353,5km²
Upstream area
31 331,9km²
Discharge
88,1m³/s
Mean elev.
946m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10810236101772 km²
- Bassin de Dawa16 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 545.0 km²40.4% of basin
- 410.0 km²30.4% of basin
- 392.6 km²29.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Borena
IUCN IINational Park
751.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
460mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 882mm
AET
387mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
521cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
56%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)