HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080598690
Bassin · #1080598690
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 2 administrative regions : Barh El Gazel, Borkou
Sub-basin area
967,1km²
Upstream area
129 009,3km²
Discharge
60,33m³/s
Mean elev.
273m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080607020502 km²
- Bassin · #108060703048 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BorkouBorkou · Chad947.9 km²98.4% of basin
- 15.9 km²1.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim
IUCN IVFaunal Reserve
409.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 9 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°
29,5°C
Annual rain
78mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
2 217mm
AET
62mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
164cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)