HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081051880
Bassin de Laga Balal
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 : Borena, North Horr
Sub-basin area
419,9km²
Upstream area
420km²
Discharge
0,28m³/s
Mean elev.
667m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 417.0 km²99.7% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Borena
IUCN IINational Park
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
328mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 919mm
AET
274mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
315cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)