HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080438150
Bassin de Tarou
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 1 administrative regions : Borkou
Sub-basin area
308,3km²
Upstream area
1 831,3km²
Discharge
0,16m³/s
Mean elev.
702m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tarou592 km²
- Bassin de Tarou207 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BorkouBorkou · Chad307.5 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
5mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-1,00
Runoff
3mm/an
PET
1 944mm
AET
2mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
792cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)