HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080022210
Bassin de Oruwaritorugono Creek
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 5 administrative regions : Abua/Odual, Akuku-Toru, Brass, Degema, Emuoha
Sub-basin area
793,6km²
Upstream area
793,6km²
Discharge
20,83m³/s
Mean elev.
9m
Administrative coverage
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 469.2 km²59.4% of basin
- 131.2 km²16.6% of basin
- 83.0 km²10.5% of basin
- 50.5 km²6.4% of basin
- 3.3 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lower Orashi River
IUCN Not ReportedForest Reserve
39.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 18 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
2 986mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 396mm/an
PET
1 546mm
AET
1 371mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
14cm
Forest
100%
Crops
27%
Urban
16%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)