HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080690360
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 2 administrative regions : Barh El Gazel, Kanem
Sub-basin area
715,4km²
Upstream area
715,7km²
Discharge
0,19m³/s
Mean elev.
294m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 451.3 km²63.3% of basin
- 261.4 km²36.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 64 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°
29,7°C
Annual rain
336mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
2 235mm
AET
280mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
42cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)