HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080661900
Bassin de Bahr el Ghazal
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 3 administrative regions : Barh El Gazel, Kanem, Nokou
Sub-basin area
1 627,5km²
Upstream area
1 627,8km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
302m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1243.9 km²76.7% of basin
- NokouKanem · Chad250.4 km²15.4% of basin
- 127.3 km²7.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 12 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°
29,4°C
Annual rain
231mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
21mm/an
PET
2 225mm
AET
191mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
103cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)