Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081045600

Bassin · #1081045600

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 : Borena, Liben, Mandera West

Pfafstetter: 11422901

Sub-basin area

1 186,4km²

Upstream area

7 893,1km²

Discharge

17,66m³/s

Mean elev.

984m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Borena

    IUCN II

    National Park

    1173.79 km² overlap

  • Geralle

    IUCN II

    National Park

    6.72 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

19 distinct species · 21 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

21 obs · 8 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 9
9–8
2–8
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

23,1°C

Annual rain

453mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,77

Runoff

65mm/an

PET

1 980mm

AET

381mm

Mean slope

3,2°

Water table

291cm

Forest

0%

Crops

5%

Urban

0%

Protected

99%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)