HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080784490
Bassin de Hawal
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 5 administrative regions : Askira/Uba, Biu, Chibok, Damboa, Hawul
Sub-basin area
737,8km²
Upstream area
2 937,2km²
Discharge
6,15m³/s
Mean elev.
512m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hawal1476 km²
- Bassin de Hawal724 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 510.4 km²69.5% of basin
- 107.2 km²14.6% of basin
- 44.1 km²6.0% of basin
- 41.3 km²5.6% of basin
- 31.8 km²4.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 13 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
839mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
95mm/an
PET
1 930mm
AET
708mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
124cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
6%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)