HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081045270
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 across 2 countries : Liben, Mandera East
Sub-basin area
478,6km²
Upstream area
55 640,7km²
Discharge
139,52m³/s
Mean elev.
275m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081043900422 km²
- Bassin de Dawa281 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 397.0 km²83.3% of basin
- 79.6 km²16.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
28,8°C
Annual rain
251mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
2 227mm
AET
208mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
312cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)