Prioritization of Susceptible Watershed to Sediment Yield and Evaluation of Best Management Practice: A Case Study of Awata River, Southern Ethiopia

Table 12

Soil erosion prone at subbasins’ level with their dominant LULC, soil type, and average slope.

Critical subbasin	Subbasin area (km^2)	Covered area (km^2)	SWAT dominant LULC		SWAT dominant soil class		Mean slope (%)	SED yield (t/ha/year)
			Major LULC	Coverage (%)	Soil type	Coverage (%)
1	48.204	44.99	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	93.34	Chluvisols, euvertisols	100	17.74	19.72
2	10.415	10.27	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	98.64	Chluvisols	100	16.76	33.18
3	106.42	102.51	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	96.33	Chluvisols, euvertisols	100	16.94	23.52
4	4.7742	4.57	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	95.62	Chluvisols	100	16.47	33.49
5	28.227	27.50	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	97.44	Chluvisols	100	18.14	40.99
6	60.358	58.90	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	97.59	Chluvisols, euvertisols	100	16.94	15.80
7	46.422	36.85	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	79.38	Chluvisols, euvertisols	100	18.70	16.81
8	38.859	35.35	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	90.97	Chluvisols	100	18.73	19.77
9	57.734	54.89	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	95.08	Chluvisols, euvertisols	100	22.52	28.20
10	33.665	31.97	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	94.97	Chluvisols, euvertisols	100	20.90	40.55
11	41.356	39.80	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	96.24	Chluvisols	100	18.79	30.46
12	30.056	28.56	AGRL, PAST, SHRB	95.04	Chluvisols	100	18.95	31.66