HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080749350
Bassin de Sota
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 1 administrative regions : Malanville
Sub-basin area
45,1km²
Upstream area
12 661,2km²
Discharge
51,19m³/s
Mean elev.
197m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sota1649 km²
- Bassin de Gohounkpa448 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Gougoun
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
8.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 26 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°
28,6°C
Annual rain
939mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
112mm/an
PET
1 987mm
AET
792mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
150cm
Forest
0%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)