HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080787860
Bassin de Cascades - Hauts-Bassins
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 : Comoé, Houet
Sub-basin area
1 031,4km²
Upstream area
1 031,5km²
Discharge
2,05m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1026.1 km²99.9% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kongouko
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
171.75 km² overlap
Gouandougou
IUCN Not ReportedClassified Forest
89.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
141 distinct species · 308 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 054mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 899mm
AET
880mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
167cm
Forest
3%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)