HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080438440
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
236,1km²
Upstream area
4 106,4km²
Discharge
0,34m³/s
Mean elev.
617m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Slot Canyon2039 km²
- Bassin de Tarou308 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BorkouBorkou · Chad235.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
5mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-1,00
Runoff
1mm/an
PET
1 965mm
AET
2mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
415cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)