HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080679790
Bassin · #1080679790
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 : Bam, Loroum
Sub-basin area
404,2km²
Upstream area
404,2km²
Discharge
0,14m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 402.1 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lac Bam
IUCN VIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 44 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
558mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
2 041mm
AET
469mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
166cm
Forest
0%
Crops
18%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)