Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080707490

Bassin · #1080707490

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 6 administrative regions : Guzamala, Kukawa, Lake Chad, Mafa, Marte +1

Endorheic 84% lakePfafstetter: 16220500

Sub-basin area

2 303,9km²

Upstream area

42 701,2km²

Discharge

68,16m³/s

Mean elev.

289m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Chari939 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

6 intersecting protected areas

  • Lake Chad Wetlands in Nigeria

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    697.29 km² overlap

  • Zaga

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    24.89 km² overlap

  • Wamiri

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    11.47 km² overlap

  • Yede

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    4.92 km² overlap

  • Moma

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    2.82 km² overlap

  • Mawulli

    IUCN Not Reported

    Forest Reserve

    1.61 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

21 distinct species · 67 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

67 obs · 12 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 20
12–19
6–11
5–5
< 5

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

26,9°C

Annual rain

415mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,80

Runoff

54mm/an

PET

2 071mm

AET

348mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

10cm

Forest

0%

Crops

17%

Urban

0%

Protected

2%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)