HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080770800
Bassin de Onson
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 : Gaoual, Télimélé
Sub-basin area
389,3km²
Upstream area
389,3km²
Discharge
11,31m³/s
Mean elev.
369m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 372.6 km²96.1% of basin
- 15.1 km²3.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Paradji
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
6.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 9 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
2 201mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
941mm/an
PET
1 900mm
AET
1 097mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
341cm
Forest
31%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)