HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081075730
Bassin · #1081075730
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 6 administrative regions : Banissa, Mandera North, Mandera South, Mandera West, Tarbaj +1
Sub-basin area
2 722km²
Upstream area
21 110,3km²
Discharge
42,63m³/s
Mean elev.
634m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10810598202521 km²
- Bassin · #1081059950105 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1329.1 km²49.0% of basin
- 1118.7 km²41.3% of basin
- 177.2 km²6.5% of basin
- 50.7 km²1.9% of basin
- 20.7 km²0.8% of basin
- 13.6 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Takaba hill
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
5.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 13 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
318mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
2 096mm
AET
265mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
207cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)