HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081045390
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 across 2 countries : Beled Xaawo, Dolow, Mandera East
Sub-basin area
28,3km²
Upstream area
3 254,1km²
Discharge
1,98m³/s
Mean elev.
226m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081046220924 km²
- Bassin · #1081046230272 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 23.5 km²83.4% of basin
- 3.5 km²12.4% of basin
- 1.2 km²4.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 12 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°
29,0°C
Annual rain
247mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
2 243mm
AET
205mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
114cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
50%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)