National Park · eth
Simien Mountains
- Area
- 486 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1959
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1959
- Managing authority
- Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (EWCA)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
752 distinct species · 9 087 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Simien Mountains : 12 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 1 bulle famille, 8 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 3 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
14,9km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
1
Max drainage
42 903km²
Discharge in basins
16,5m³/s
Mean precip.
856mm/an
Mean T°
18,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,48
Mean runoff
157mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 116m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Buya Shet'sub-area1 335,6 km²overlap125.03 km²26%
- Bassin de Salona Uenssub-area1 315,6 km²overlap77.10 km²16%
- Bassin de Meshesha Wenzsub-area794,3 km²overlap76.38 km²16%
- Bassin de Meshesha Wenzsub-area1 062,1 km²overlap65.14 km²13%
- Bassin de Zariemasub-area2 279,2 km²overlap56.03 km²12%
- Basin #82830sub-area522,7 km²overlap36.21 km²7%
- Bassin de ገረብ ተከዘsub-area547,6 km²overlap21.96 km²5%
- Bassin de ተከዜ ወንዝsub-area299,5 km²overlap19.08 km²4%
- Basin #08990sub-area1 011,8 km²overlap9.24 km²2%
Rivers / streams (3, ord ≥ 4)
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 13.24588, 38.09995
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.